Ascendance of a Bookworm

Written by Miya Kazuki and illustrated by You Shiina, this charming fantasy has delighted book lovers all over the world!

A college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one. Myne resolves herself: If there aren't any books, she'll just have to make them! Her goal is to become a librarian. This story begins with her quest to make books so she can live surrounded by them! Dive into this biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms!

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★★★★★
"The anime is great, but the original source light novels are so much more detailed and have many scenes the anime skipped."
-Austin, Amazon

★★★★★
"I could feel myself being drawn into Myne's world and needing to know if she will fulfil her dream of making a book."
- Josh, Amazon

★★★★★
"This is one of the best LN series out there"
- yumenokage, Amazon

★★★★★
"Best isekai I've ever read, because it's not like any isekai ever written."
- S T, Amazon

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