You might like Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. I thought they kind of went downhill after the third book, but they're fun quick reads which feature both g

You might like Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. I thought they kind of went downhill after the third book, but they're fun quick reads which feature both genetically-engineered dodo pets and woolly mammoths. Also, while it may be very expensive to clone a mammoth or a dodo today, you gotta figure that it will also contribute to figuring out how to do this sort of thing more cheaply at scale, which we might need considering the ongoing mass extinction of the Anthropocene.