To be or not to be? You decide.

 Shakespeare's most famous question appears in Hamlet, but now readers will get to answer it themselves with Ryan North's To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure, a "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style rewrite of Shakespeare's classic play. "It occurred to me that [Hamlet's] favorite speech, 'To Be Or Not To Be', is structured like a choice, almost like those old Choose Your Own Adventure books, and I thought, 'Oh my God, I have to write this.'" North says. So he wrote his version of Hamlet in the style of the classic children's book series, in which the reader would be prompted to make the main character's decisions — turn to page 3 for this, turn to page 5 for that — and take the story in many different directions.