Life of Pi Gets Presidential Nod.

What’s President Obama reading these days? A prize-winning adventure novel about a boy living in a lifeboat, says Reuters. But it’s not your typical castaway story. The Swiss Family Robinson and Tom Hanks never had to share a lifeboat with a tiger, hyena, orangutan, and zebra.

“It’s a wonderful book,” Obama said of Life of Pi, which was penned by the Canadian author Yann Martel. “There are whole…chapters that really have to do with talking about Hinduism and Christianity and comparing it…”

Life of Pi snagged the Booker Prize for fiction in 2002. Its follow up, Beatrice and Virgil, will hit shelves this June.

More info on Beatrice and Virgil here.