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Graphic Novel / Comic Book / Manga: Styles / Traditions
The Castle 2013
The protagonist of this Kafka classic, K., finds himself in a faraway, snow-covered village with a castle looming above. The inhabitants of the mysterious castle are also the strict officials who govern the village.
When K. tries to reach out to the officials, he gets himself into a complex...
Comfortless 2025
“This book makes no claims to scientific validity and is in no way intended for informational purposes.” So declares Miguel Vila in the outset of his new graphic novel, *Comfortless*, a taxonomy of the masks with which we pretend to live, executed with the precision of a master sociologist.
It...
Dogtangle 2025
Dogtangle opens with a town hall meeting in a Taco Bell nestled in the bland corporate environment of Business Park. A man, bleating to anyone who will listen about the evils of current zoning laws, meets a woman who works in pharmaceutical marketing. They begin a relationship. They get married....
The Do-Over 2025
Do-Over, Book 2
A winter without their trusty RV means no True Colors salon for Zoe, Mariana, and Everly. So the girls decide to take their salon to school by starting the True Colors Style Club. The club hits the ground running, and the friends are excited to share styling tips with their new members (plus, eat...
Girlmode 2024
The last thing Phoebe Zito wants is to be noticed. The newest kid at Sally Ride High School, newly arrived in Los Angeles, and newly transitioned, she's just trying to blend in while she figures out exactly who she is. But with her mom checked out, her dad still adjusting to having a daughter, and...
The Graveyard Book 2014
After a brutal murder leaves his family dead, a toddler wanders into a nearby graveyard—and is taken in by its ghostly inhabitants. Renamed Nobody “Bod” Owens, he is raised among the dead, protected by the mysterious Silas and taught the strange skills of the graveyard: how to Fade, how to move...
The Graveyard Book 2014
No longer a small child, Bod Owens begins to feel the pull of the world beyond the graveyard. As he ventures further from the only home he has ever known, he faces new dangers—human and otherwise—and starts to question where he truly belongs. The protection that once seemed absolute begins to weaken...
Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings—such as the ability to Fade...
A visual adaptation of Robert W. Chambers’ The King in Yellow, bringing to life the eerie world surrounding a forbidden play said to drive its readers into madness. Through haunting imagery and atmospheric storytelling, the collection explores encounters with the mysterious Yellow Sign, fractured...
Knots 2024
Norah is the good kid. Good at pleasing her parents and being a good sister. Good at school. Good at, well, almost everything. So when Mom’s work brings her to a new town leaving Norah and Dad behind, no one thinks twice. After all, Norah’s a mature sixth grader who can take care of...
Lovers and Haters 2025
Love and Rockets, Book 33
The first story collection in Gilbert Hernandez’s Palomar saga to take place after the events of 2010’s *High Soft Lisp* is torn from the pages of *Love and Rockets: New Stories*, *Love and Rockets Vol. IV*, and *Psychodrama Illustrated*—and expanded with 14 new pages!
In *Lovers and Haters*,...
Princess Jellyfish 2016
Princess Jellyfish, Book 1
Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She’s loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese...
Princess Jellyfish 2016
Princess Jellyfish, Book 2
With the geeky paradise of Amamizu-kan threatened by redevelopment plans, Tsukimi and the Amars must spring into action. Buy the wily Inari and her hold on Shu forces Kuranosuke to pull out all the stops: money, blackmail, and...fashion?! Though Amamizu-kan still struggles with Kuranosuke's stylish...
Princess Jellyfish 2016
Princess Jellyfish, Book 3
Inari, the aggressive vixen of redevelopment, ramps up her efforts to buy out Amamizu-kan, where Tsukimi and her friends live. But Kuranosuke has a fabulous plan of attack—turn Tsukimi’s jellyfish designs into a reality! Will becoming real fashion designers be more than Amars can handle? Meanwhile,...
Princess Jellyfish 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 4
The night of the fashion show for Tsukimi and Kuranosuke’s Jelly Fish brand has finally arrived. They pulled out all the stops to make Amamizu-kan into an enchanting wonderland–even Mayaya has transformed into a chic model! The show brings some much-needed attention to the retro building, but will...
Princess Jellyfish 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 5
With the help of Amars and their savvy new ally Nisha, Tsukimi’s jellyfish designs are slowly taking shape as a real clothing line. There’s no time to waste if the group wants to save Amamizukan and make a splash in the fashion world, and that means churning out new dresses—and fast! As if Tsukimi...
Princess Jellyfish 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 6
In order to save Amamizukan, the girls decide to put up an exhibition of their work. When the Jelly Fish dresses catch the eye of Asia’s greatest fashion influencer, Kai, it’s not only the dresses that the mogul wants—it’s the designer herself. Tsukimi and the gang are about to get the massive break...
Princess Jellyfish 2017
Princess Jellyfish, Book 7
In order to save Amamizukan, Tsukimi makes the ultimate sacrifice: She goes to Singapore to work as a designer for Kai’s fashion company. While Amars seems to accept Tsukimi’s departure and the end of Jelly Fish, Kuranosuke refuses to give her up without a fight! As she floats further and further...
Princess Jellyfish 2018
Princess Jellyfish, Book 8
As this modern fairy tale of otaku girls bum-rushing the fashion industry hits its penultimate volume, Kuranosuke charges onwards for Tsukimi's retrieval mission! Hanamori-san also makes his way to Singapore, for less noble reasons, but the biggest showstopper is Shu, who decides to propose...for...
Princess Jellyfish 2018
Princess Jellyfish, Book 9
As a brand, Jelly Fish comes to the conclusion that their dresses are for Amars, by Amars. After embracing the fact that they make clothes for weirdos, Tsukimi and the crew must figure out how to sell their styles! In true Amars fashion, these beloved otaku girls and eccentric boys struggle and...
The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat, The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakest and most prescient novels.
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 1 - Part 1
If there aren’t any books, I’ll just have to make some!
A certain 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,...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 1 - Part 2
To make a book, first I need paper! It has been a year since our hero was reborn into a new world in the body of Myne, a sickly little girl from a poor family. She's been doing her best to fulfill her dream of making books, but her plans have been foiled at every turn.
But now Myne has a deal with...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 1 - Part 3
The third and final volume in the first part of this epic tale of our intrepid bookworm!
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 2 - Part 1
With her baptism ceremony complete, Myne begins work in the temple as an apprentice shrine maiden. Awaiting within is what she always wanted: a room full of books! But her new life isn’t quite the dream she was hoping for; she’s surrounded by nobles who scorn her common origins, and even her own...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 2 - Part 2
The continuation of a new chapter in Myne's journey, Part 2: Apprentice Shrine Maiden!
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 1
A certain 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...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 2 - Part 3
The continuation of a new chapter in Myne's journey, Part 2: Apprentice Shrine Maiden!
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 2
Myne has finally started to adjust to her new life... but once a bookworm, always a bookworm. As winter sets in, there are historical methodologies to try: papyrus, clay tablets... anything that can hold letters and words. Even if it means getting well enough to visit the forest!
But first there...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 3
Myne throws everything she has at paper-making while helping at the gate and preparing for Tuuli's baptism. She tries weaving faux-papyrus from fibers during winter and forming clay tablets during the spring, but both fail. Still, her love for books isn't so weak that she'd give up that easily. It's...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 2 - Part 4
The long winter comes to an end and vibrant spring returns to Ehrenfest. The temple swirls busily as attempts to control Myne's future escalate and the High Bishop, fueled by hate, shrouds the city in the darkness of his nefarious plots. But Myne just wants everything to stay the same. Her little...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 3 - Part 1
Following a disastrous encounter with a noble, Myne finally resolves to say goodbye to her family and friends in the lower city, changing her name to “Rozemyne” and beginning her new life as the adopted daughter of Ehrenfest’s archduke.
However, her days as an archnoble in noble society are brutal,...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 4
Aspiring apprentice merchants Myne and Lutz have signed a contract with Benno, who has promised to sell their plant-based prototype. With his assistance, they finally have the materials and tools to start making their first batch of washi paper! And Benno wants to sell not only paper, but Myne's...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 5
Myne tells Lutz the truth about herself. He gets mad and confused, but in the end accepts Myne, with whom he has spent the past year making paper and such with. They successfully complete the paper and get accepted by Benno.
They go to the Merchant's Guild to register so they can sell paper, where...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 6
Myne advances further into book-making so that she can have books to read. Her disease is known as “the Devouring,” and upon learning that it requires an exorbitant amount of money to cure, she resolves to stay alive by selling her knowledge from her past life.
But despite her best efforts, the...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 3 - Part 2
Rozemyne, now both the High Bishop and the archduke’s adopted daughter, finds herself lost in a position of power she just isn’t used to. Preparing for the Harvest Festival, taking care of new orphans, dealing with the dissatisfaction of a neighboring town—her list of problems just keeps on...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 1 - Part 7
Myne narrowly escapes death thanks to a magic tool, but is told that she only has one year left to live at most. She decides to spend her remaining time with her family, concluding that she would rather die with them than sign her life away to a noble.
Meanwhile, Lutz fights back against his...
Here is the first official Ascendance of a Bookworm fanbook, intended to be read after finishing Part 3 Volume 2. This book contains a slew of additional content, including all the color and cover artwork up to Part 3 Volume 1, a short story on a pair of new apprentices’ first tour of the temple, a...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 3 - Part 3
In the midst of an approaching winter, Rozemyne the High Bishop is traveling between the temple and castle more than ever, participating in noble society, the baptism ceremony, and the Dedication Ritual. With her hands full teaching kids too young for the Royal Academy and even tutoring guard...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 1
Myne successfully negotiates with the temple and starts working as an apprentice blue shrine maiden. This new job also ensures she will receive the same treatment as a noble. The wait is over—she can finally read in the book room!
Unfortunately, she still won’t have it easy thanks to the temple’s...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 3 - Part 4
Love Blooms in Spring! Rozemyne’s retainers are bursting with energy as they sew new clothes, attend their debuts, and thrive in the new season. The improved printing press has finally been completed in the temple workshop, and new types of books are steadily being produced. Knight stories, picture...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 2
As time goes on, Myne slowly gets more and more used to life in the temple. She learns to speak like a noble and is allowed to live in the orphanage director’s chambers. She even successfully breaks the ice with Fran!
Gil, her once troublesome attendant, cleans her new chambers as ordered and...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 3 - Part 5
Rozemyne needs only one more ingredient for her jureve: the ruelle fruit she failed to gather the year before. With it, she and Ferdinand can finally brew the potent potion that will make her a normal, healthy girl. Well, probably… She funnels her excitement into advancing the paper-making industry...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 3
Myne is starting to grow more comfortable with temple life. Things are finally going well—that is, until she learns the truth about the orphanage. The children there are starving and emaciated, living in conditions that shake the apprentice blue shrine maiden to her core.
After agonizing over this...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 4 - Part 1
A Lot Can Change in Two Years
Rozemyne awakens from her slumber to a world not as she remembers it. Unease stirs her heart, but she has no time to rest—she is soon to be enrolled in the Royal Academy as an archduke candidate. There, she’ll need to master controlling her mana, creating magic tools,...
A collection of art, short stories, and more that no bookworm should miss! This fanbook covers material up to and including Part 4 Volume 1. Inside, find an abundance of supplementary content like design sheets for new characters, an extensive family tree, and seven short stories not found in the...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 4 - Part 2
A Toe-Stepping Political Dance
Since the moment she set foot in the Royal Academy, Rozemyne has put her absolute all into her studies so that she can finally get into the library! Unfortunately, she behaves so abnormally in the process that her retainers and professors end up concerned...
Then,...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 4
Now acting as the orphanage director, Myne starts on her mission to save the temple's orphans—an endeavor that earns her a great deal of respect from the children whose lives she works to improve. She cleans up the orphanage, teaches the orphans to provide for themselves, and even gives them an...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 4 - Part 3
Rozemyne's First Year at the Royal Academy Comes to a Close... Finally reuniting with Ferdinand and the others, Rozemyne returns to the temple and to her duties as the High Bishop. There's so much to do—the Dedication Ritual, supporting the printing industry, going to meetings, and tackling...
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 5
Lutz's parents refuse to accept him becoming a merchant and he runs away from home after they argue. News of the dispute quickly reaches the Gilberta Company, and only when Myne and the High Priest arrange a mediation between the involved parties do they reach a resolution.
With peace finally...
Umma's Table 2020
A man returns to his aging mother’s home, where the simple act of sharing meals becomes a way of revisiting memory, family history, and everything that has been left unsaid over the years. Through everyday dishes and repeated routines, fragments of the past resurface in quiet but persistent...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 1
Rinko has done everything right. She hustled her way through her 20s to make it as a screenwriter, renting her own office in a trendy Tokyo neighborhood. Everything should have gone according to plan... So at 33, she can't help but lament the fact that her career's plateaued, she's still painfully...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 2
Turns out, sex isn't everything. After a misspent night with a hot model (and a little too much booze), Rinko wakes up feeling more depressed than ever, unable to shake her growing suspicion that, at 33, she's doomed to be forever alone. Her friends Kaori and Koyuki think they have found...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 3
When it finally seems like Rinko has caught a break, it disappears almost as quickly--thanks, once again, to Key. Meanwhile, Kaori finds out that she's not the only one her ex is cheating on his girlfriend with, and Koyuki learns her married boyfriend's wife may not be as estranged as she seemed....
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2018
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 4
A meet-cute in a movie rental store has led Rinko into a relationship with the perfect man: He's tall, he cooks, and he owns a movie-themed café/bar. There's just one little thing between her and wedded bliss: He wants her to perm her hair. And he won't let her talk during movies. And he won't shut...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 5
After yet another devastating encounter with Key, Rinko constantly questions what it means to be a "good woman." The haunting thought drives her to consult a fortune teller, who seems to nail her problems right on the head. When Rinko brings Koyuki and Kaori along to experience the psychic for...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 6
Faced with the possibility that she might be pregnant, Kaori loses sight of what she wants from Ryo. With Koyuki sinking deeper into her affair and Rinko compromising on her dreams of a heart-pounding romance, it seems like the futures they envisioned in their twenties have never been more...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 7
While just starting to rekindle an old flame with Hayasaka-san, Rinko is mortified to have their first date crashed by Key. Will what he has to say condemn Rinko to another angry, drunken night with her friends...or will it strengthen her resolve to make this new relationship work? There's only one...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 8
At last, Rinko's found it--the happy, comfortable relationship she's dreamt of. She and Hayasaka-san have moved into an apartment together, and her best friends have wished her well. Everything is going smoothly...until those same best friends show up breathless at her doorstep with the biggest...
Tokyo Tarareba Girls 2019
Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Book 9
During her four-alarm search for Key, Rinko makes a decision she can't take back, and is forced to finally reckon with the question she's been pursuing all along: Can a tarareba girl ever truly find happiness? What even is "happiness," anyway? In this final volume of Tokyo Tarareba Girls, the answer...
Ascendance of a Bookworm July 14, 2026
The sixth official Ascendance of a Bookworm fanbook is here, perfect for readers who’ve finished Part 5 Volume 6. Inside, you’ll find character design sheets, manga, stunning artwork, and coverage of not one but two drama CDs.
This installment also offers an exclusive look at how author Miya Kazuki...
Ascendance of a Bookworm June 9, 2026
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 4
Her registration complete and two large shumils now under her command, Rozemyne finally gets a taste of the library of her dreams. But before she can lose herself in its countless books, she must first pass the rest of her practical classes. Chief among them is the acquisition of her schtappe—a...
Ascendance of a Bookworm April 14, 2026
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 3
Ehrenfest’s new students begin their harsh endeavor to pass each of their written lessons on the very first day. Rozemyne oversees their feverish efforts to achieve the improbable, but keeping morale high is the least of her concerns. She now has more mana than before her two-year slumber, making...
Half a year has passed since Yurgenschmidt inaugurated its first underage aub, and Hannelore—now an archduke candidate for the country’s top-ranked duchy—is in the midst of a crisis! She finds herself pressed to choose from a growing list of marriage candidates, and her natural indecisiveness isn’t...
Ascendance of a Bookworm February 10, 2026
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 2
Even though she’s a student now, there are still more obstacles standing between Rozemyne and the library she can’t wait to visit. To gain access to its treasure trove of tomes, she must not only finish her own classes but also ensure that all the other first-years pass!
Considering regressive...
Ascendance of a Bookworm December 9, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 4 - Part 1
Rozemyne awakens from her two-year slumber to find that everything and everyone has changed, which is just as terrifying as it sounds. She’s immediately thrust toward the Royal Academy—a requirement for becoming a noble. There, she’ll meet so many teachers and students from other duchies... but will...
Ascendance of a Bookworm December 9, 2025
New Tales from Yurgenschmidt!
Rozemyne’s third year at the Royal Academy comes to a close, and so much has changed since her days as an apprentice blue shrine maiden. She has a new name, and she’s grown twenty-five centimeters taller on top of that! Many more books have been printed over the years...
Search and Destroy November 25, 2025
Search and Destroy, Book 3
The broken and discarded creatures of the city have had enough of the caste system that keeps them servile, and they rise up to strike… Doro the little thief must confront their past and make impossible decisions about their future...
And Hyaku? Hyaku’s quest to retrieve the stolen pieces of her...
Ascendance of a Bookworm November 11, 2025
Even More Morsels for Bookworms!
Here is the fifth official Ascendance of a Bookworm fanbook, intended to be read after finishing Part 5 Volume 3. As always, this volume contains plenty of art, character design sheets, manga, and a short story not found in the light novels. Also included are the...
Comfortless November 11, 2025
“This book makes no claims to scientific validity and is in no way intended for informational purposes.” So declares Miguel Vila in the outset of his new graphic novel, *Comfortless*, a taxonomy of the masks with which we pretend to live, executed with the precision of a master sociologist.
It...
Lovers and Haters November 11, 2025
Love and Rockets, Book 33
The first story collection in Gilbert Hernandez’s Palomar saga to take place after the events of 2010’s *High Soft Lisp* is torn from the pages of *Love and Rockets: New Stories*, *Love and Rockets Vol. IV*, and *Psychodrama Illustrated*—and expanded with 14 new pages!
In *Lovers and Haters*,...
Dogtangle November 4, 2025
Dogtangle opens with a town hall meeting in a Taco Bell nestled in the bland corporate environment of Business Park. A man, bleating to anyone who will listen about the evils of current zoning laws, meets a woman who works in pharmaceutical marketing. They begin a relationship. They get married....
The Do-Over October 14, 2025
Do-Over, Book 2
A winter without their trusty RV means no True Colors salon for Zoe, Mariana, and Everly. So the girls decide to take their salon to school by starting the True Colors Style Club. The club hits the ground running, and the friends are excited to share styling tips with their new members (plus, eat...
Ascendance of a Bookworm October 14, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 4
Excitement fills the Noble’s Quarter as a long-awaited concert finally begins. Eager customers await Rozemyne’s printed products, but with Sylvester snooping around, something is bound to go wrong. Rozemyne has a plan, but it seems it may not be as airtight as she imagined.
The Saint of Ehrenfest...
Ascendance of a Bookworm September 9, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 12
Upon completing her large-scale spell, Rozemyne fell unconscious. Now, Ferdinand must bring her back from the brink of death—and, with any luck, restore her lost memories too. If she survives, she’ll set out on a new journey, becoming Yurgenschmidt’s first underage aub and ruling over the library...
Ascendance of a Bookworm August 26, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 11
Approaching Check - and Mate?
Striving to change Yurgenschmidt for the better, Ferdinand starts a revolution that will abolish the distorted royal family and put a true Zent on the throne. Not everyone is on board, however, and as the Grutrissheit transference ceremony draws near, Rozemyne...
Ascendance of a Bookworm July 15, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 10
A Climactic Battle
Under the cover of darkness, Rozemyne, Ferdinand, and their Dunkelfelger allies set out to subjugate the Adalgisa villa. However, Gervasio’s absence and an act of betrayal within the Sovereign Knight’s Order come to light, which leads the party to focus on the Royal Academy’s...
Ascendance of a Bookworm July 15, 2025
Even More Goodies for Biblio-fantasy Fans
Here is the fourth official Ascendance of a Bookworm fanbook, intended to be read after finishing Part 4 Volume 8 and Short Story Collection 1. This volume contains even more illustrations, character design sheets, and manga, as well as a short story not...
Ascendance of a Bookworm June 10, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 3
Ferdinand’s harspiel concert is just around the corner! Rozemyne can barely keep track of everything she needs to get done before then, like readying programs and songs and working on a last-minute expansion...
Meanwhile, a slight misunderstanding between two smiths leads to a competition—who can...
Ascendance of a Bookworm May 12, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 9
A Time For War!
The Battle of Gerlach has started, and together with Matthias, Rozemyne must defeat the cold-blooded Grausam. However, an unexpected development leads to that being easier said than done. With body doubles, collateral damage, and even more dark plots happening in the shadows... how...
Ascendance of a Bookworm March 11, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 8
To the Rescue!
Greater duchies, the Sovereignty, the royal family, even the gods themselves—Rozemyne would take on anyone in her quest to rescue Ferdinand. She uses her newly acquired Book of Mestionora to activate Kirnberger’s long-dormant country gate.
Ascendance of a Bookworm February 11, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 9
Myne reunites with her mother in the world of dreams, bringing a tear to the eye of even the High Priest. He deems Myne free of any malice, but other threats lurk in the shadows.
The head of the Ink Guild expresses a sudden, concerning interest in the lower city’s resident bookworm, and an...
Ascendance of a Bookworm January 14, 2025
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 7
Ferdinand senses danger on the horizon. Dark clouds hang over him, twisting and turning into a dense miasma of unease.
Meanwhile, Rozemyne prepares for winter, conscious that her move to the Sovereignty is fast approaching. Her fourth term at the Royal Academy begins, she meets new faces at the...
Ascendance of a Bookworm December 10, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 8
As the High Priest battles a trombe alongside the Knight’s Order, Myne glimpses the terrors of noble society. She completes the Healing Ritual and demonstrates her worth as an apprentice blue shrine maiden, but even then, there are those who remain doubtful...
Is she a grave threat to Ehrenfest or...
Ascendance of a Bookworm November 12, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 6
The Archduke Conference is over, and Ehrenfest’s archducal family is still reeling from fresh troubles. As if a surprising ceremony and the Sovereign temple’s schemes weren’t enough, Rozemyne has one more blow to deal—she announces that her current adoption is being nullified, and the king will take...
Girlmode October 15, 2024
The last thing Phoebe Zito wants is to be noticed. The newest kid at Sally Ride High School, newly arrived in Los Angeles, and newly transitioned, she's just trying to blend in while she figures out exactly who she is. But with her mom checked out, her dad still adjusting to having a daughter, and...
The Road: A Graphic Novel September 17, 2024
The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a postapocalyptic wasteland where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat, The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakest and most prescient novels.
Ascendance of a Bookworm September 10, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 5
A frigid winter melts away to reveal spring celebrations. Rozemyne is given a harsh choice to make upon her return to Ehrenfest. The Leisegangs are now the dominant power after the winter purge, and their plans are sowing the seeds of distrust within the archducal family. Even so, Rozemyne forges...
Knots September 3, 2024
Norah is the good kid. Good at pleasing her parents and being a good sister. Good at school. Good at, well, almost everything. So when Mom’s work brings her to a new town leaving Norah and Dad behind, no one thinks twice. After all, Norah’s a mature sixth grader who can take care of...
Ascendance of a Bookworm August 13, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 2
Rozemyne’s reunion with her family is only too brief—no sooner has she completed the lower city’s Starbind Ceremony than she is whisked away to the archduke’s castle to perform another.
Next, she must attend a meeting at the Italian restaurant, gather funds for the printing industry, and even study...
Ascendance of a Bookworm July 9, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 4
A frigid winter melts away to reveal spring celebrations. Rozemyne is given a harsh choice to make upon her return to Ehrenfest. The Leisegangs are now the dominant power after the winter purge, and their plans are sowing the seeds of distrust within the archducal family. Even so, Rozemyne forges...
Ascendance of a Bookworm June 11, 2024
Turn the page on six years of insights and secrets. So many things have happened since Urano began a new life as Myne. At first she was a simple commoner, then became an apprentice shrine maiden, and was ultimately thrown into the world of nobility as Rozemyne, the adopted daughter of an archduke!...
Ascendance of a Bookworm May 14, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 3
No time to rest—the Interduchy Tournament is about to begin! After yet another fever, Rozemyne awakes to some shocking news: the Sovereign knights captured for interrupting her ditter match might have been under the influence of trug. This brings a recent incident involving Lady Georgine to her...
Ascendance of a Bookworm April 9, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 3 - Part 1
Myne is determined to protect those she cares about most, so she abandons the life she knows to become Rozemyne, the archduke's mana-rich adopted daughter. She charges forward into this strange new world, not letting her new persona change her passion for books!
Watch as the setting of this...
Warriors March 12, 2024
When kittypet Tiny crosses paths with some wild forest cats defending their territory, they leave him with scars—and a bitter, deep-seated grudge.
As his reputation grows among the strays and loners that live in the dirty brick alleyways of Twolegplace, he changes his name to Scourge and puts...
Ascendance of a Bookworm March 12, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 2
Divine duels and a rematch! As snow falls around Ahrensbach’s castle, Ferdinand, soon to be married to the duchy’s next archduchess, receives a concerning letter. Not only has Rozemyne been summoned by the royal family once again, but she is also being taken to the underground archive hidden beneath...
Ascendance of a Bookworm January 9, 2024
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 5 - Part 1
Part 5, the final chapter of this biblio-fantasy, begins with a colder-than-usual winter... Ehrenfest's first winter without Ferdinand feels harsher than usual. An unexpected betrayal within the former Veronica faction makes the purge even more urgent, and those who know about Georgine's destructive...
Ascendance of a Bookworm November 14, 2023
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 4 - Part 9
The conclusion comes with an emotional farewell... On the surface, Rozemyne seems busy studying for her next year at the Royal Academy and working toward the installation of the new High Priest... but beneath all that is a heart swirling in turmoil.
A decree from the king himself requires Ferdinand...
Ascendance of a Bookworm October 10, 2023
The Third Collection for Fans of This Biblio-Fantasy for Bibliophiles!
Another official fanbook for Ascendance of a Bookworm lovers! Intended to be read after finishing Part 4 Volume 4 and Royal Academy Stories: First Year. Inside, find even more art, character design sheets, manga, and a short...
Ascendance of a Bookworm September 12, 2023
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 4 - Part 8
Buried secrets come to light as we near the end of Part 4 of this biblio-fantasy! Rozemyne returns to Ehrenfest once more after her second term at the Royal Academy. Her days unfold peacefully as she meets her new little brother, searches for a younger retainer, tries her hand at cooking fish, and...
Ascendance of a Bookworm August 8, 2023
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 7
Myne resolved to make her own books two years ago, and now she's finally finished her first one! Lutz and Tuuli join the ecstatic bookworm's celebrations, but their time together is cut short by winter's arrival. Myne needs to endure the bitter season in the temple, away from her family—and her...
Ascendance of a Bookworm July 11, 2023
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 4 - Part 7
Faint hopes of peace and quiet... but not for long! After fainting at a tea party for bookworms, Rozemyne is forced to return to Ehrenfest. She reunites with her lower-city associates and settles in for some long-awaited reading time in the temple... but as peaceful as these cold winter days may...
Ascendance of a Bookworm June 13, 2023
As the library falls quiet once again after the graduation ceremony, Solange reflects on the eventful term that just ended and the many special memories she made along the way.
This new side series includes tales from Rozemyne's time at the Royal Academy through different sets of eyes! Read events...
Ascendance of a Bookworm May 16, 2023
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 4 - Part 6
Turning the page to a new school year. It's time for Rozemyne's next year at the Royal Academy to begin—and she gets right to work causing even more problems! She goes on another library-inspired rampage and pushes the other Ehrenfest second-years to finish their classes on the first day, all while...
Ascendance of a Bookworm April 18, 2023
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 6
Myne shows the High Priest her rewritten bible to secure his approval. Unfortunately, it only casts doubt on who she claims to be. The High Priest demands answers: how can a girl who struggles to author a simple letter produce something so well-written? Myne struggles with how to respond. Will the...
Ascendance of a Bookworm March 14, 2023
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 4 - Part 5
The rise of the lower city, a political wedding, and reappearing rebels... The lower city is now a true sight to behold, and Rozemyne aims to continue her development plan and secure a greater influence over the country's other duchies. Doing this will require the commoners' assistance, so she gets...
Ascendance of a Bookworm January 17, 2023
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 4 - Part 4
There's no time to rest—there are books to print! Despite being separated from her lower city friends, Rozemyne is too busy to grieve. Her first year at the Royal Academy is over, and there's much for her to do as the seasons change. She strives to continue making books like she promised Lutz, but...
Ascendance of a Bookworm December 13, 2022
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 5
Lutz's parents refuse to accept him becoming a merchant and he runs away from home after they argue. News of the dispute quickly reaches the Gilberta Company, and only when Myne and the High Priest arrange a mediation between the involved parties do they reach a resolution.
With peace finally...
Ascendance of a Bookworm November 1, 2022
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Light Novel), Book 4 - Part 3
Rozemyne's First Year at the Royal Academy Comes to a Close... Finally reuniting with Ferdinand and the others, Rozemyne returns to the temple and to her duties as the High Bishop. There's so much to do—the Dedication Ritual, supporting the printing industry, going to meetings, and tackling...
Ascendance of a Bookworm October 4, 2022
Ascendance of a Bookworm (Manga), Book 2 - Part 4
Now acting as the orphanage director, Myne starts on her mission to save the temple's orphans—an endeavor that earns her a great deal of respect from the children whose lives she works to improve. She cleans up the orphanage, teaches the orphans to provide for themselves, and even gives them an...