Books about experiencing other lives/timelines? Like Sense8, Everything Everywhere All At Once, All of Us Strangers

I love media about experiencing other perspectives, lives, timelines, realities, etc.

In *Sense8*: One person being able to access seven other minds, skillsets, existences. In *Everything Everywhere All At Once*: Accessing & inhabiting yourself in different realities, seeing your other lives. *In All of Us Strangers*: A man revisits his childhood home and is able to have conversations with visions of his long-dead parents.

These premises feel so full and so human to me because they all revolve around what we’re all often wondering: what could have been, what could be, how other people are living, how I am living.

I’m looking for books, preferably literary fiction, that mess with reality/explore other realities or timelines in this way.

I’ve struggled to find books that do this sort of thing, but here’s some (very loose) inspo:

* *Convenience Store Woman* by Sayaka Murata (this probably least fits the brief, but love Murata’s exploration of a woman whose life’s purpose is manning a convenience store, the constant tension between her calling and the reality/life others expect of her)
* *Tinkers* by Paul Harding
* *Kindred* by Octavia Butler
* Haven’t read, but have come across in my searches: *4 3 2 1* by Paul Aster, *The Bone Clocks* and *Cloud Atlas* by David Mitchell

Thanks in advance!

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