Query: 2013 novels about multiple time paths
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
To Be or Not to Be (book)
Life After Life (novel)
Evidence from documents: To Be or Not to Be (book): 2013 novels: '''''To Be or Not to Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure''''', also referred to as '''''To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Adventure''''', is a 2013 novel by Ryan North, retelling the story of Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' in a choose your own adventure format and mostly contemporary language.
about multiple time paths: ''To Be or Not to Be'' offers the reader the option to play as one of three characters: Hamlet, Ophelia, or Hamlet Sr., King of Denmark. From there the story branches frequently, with some options following the course of the original play and others providing the choice to give up on the quest to kill King Claudius, or to follow other pursuits (Ophelia, for example, is a keen scientist who can invent indoor heating, and King Hamlet, as a ghost, can choose to explore the ocean floor or tame the ghosts of dinosaurs).
Life After Life (novel): '''''Life After Life''''' is a 2013 novel by Kate Atkinson. It is the first of two novels about the Todd family. The second, ''A God in Ruins'', was published in 2015. ''Life After Life'' garnered acclaim from critics.
The novel has an unusual structure, repeatedly looping back in time to describe alternative possible lives for its central character, Ursula Todd, who is born on 11 February 1910 to an upper-middle-class family near Chalfont St Peter in Buckinghamshire. In the first version, she is strangled by her umbilical cord and stillborn. In later iterations of her life she dies as a child - drowning in the sea, or when saved from that, by falling to her death from the roof when trying to retrieve a fallen doll. Then there are several sequences when she falls victim to the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 - which repeats itself again and again, though she already has a foreknowledge of it, and only her fourth attempt to avert catching the flu succeeds.