33 Books With Shocking Plot Twists That Still Keep Us Up at Night

Life of Pi is a stunning, emotional look at how some people deal with trauma. Witness 16-year-old Pi's methods of survival when the freighter he, his family, and the exotic animals from their zoo are traveling on sinks in the middle of the ocean, leaving him stranded on a small lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, a tiger, and an orangutan for company. What's more shocking than trying to coexist peacefully with a 450-lb. Bengal tiger for 227 days is the story about his ordeal that Pi tells the authorities who eventually discover him.