# Life of Pi

**Author:** Yann Martel
**Lexile:** 830L
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–18
**First published:** 2001
**Page count:** 336
**Genre:** Literary Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780156027328`
**ISBN-10:** `0156027321`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/life-of-pi
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

After a shipwreck, a teenage boy named Pi Patel survives 227 days adrift in a lifeboat in the Pacific — sharing it with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. When rescuers doubt his account, Pi offers a second, harsher version, leaving the reader to choose which to believe. The Booker Prize winner is a common grades 9-12 text for its themes of survival, faith, and the power of storytelling.

## Themes

- survival
- religion
- storytelling
- identity

## Content notes

- peril
- violence
- animal death

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