Digital Releases
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-13 | After-School Dungeon Diver: Level Grinding in Another World | 4 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
| 2025-01-13 | Let This Grieving Soul Retire | 6 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
| 2025-01-14 | Demon Lord, Retry! | 9 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
| 2025-01-14 | The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic | 5 | One Peace Books | 🖥️ |
| 2025-01-15 | From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone | 5 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
| 2025-01-16 | The Villainess and the Demon Knight | 2 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🖥️ |
| 2025-01-16 | True Love Fades Away When the Contract Ends – Music of the Flower Gardens and Heavens | 2 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🖥️ |
| 2025-01-17 | Record of Wortenia War | 27 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
| 2025-01-17 | The Misfit of Demon King Academy | 8 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
Physical Releases
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-13 | Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 | 7 | J-Novel Club | 📖 |
| 2025-01-13 | I Shall Survive Using Potions! | 9 | J-Novel Club | 📖 |
| 2025-01-13 | Tearmoon Empire | 11 | J-Novel Club | 📖 |
| 2025-01-14 | I Abandoned My Engagement Because My Sister is a Tragic Heroine, but Somehow I Became Entangled with a Righteous Prince | 2 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 |
Audio Releases
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-14 | Ishura | 6 | Yen Press | 🎧 |
| 2025-01-14 | Overlord | 15 | Yen Press | 🎧 |
| 2025-01-14 | Spice and Wolf | 12 | Yen Press | 🎧 |
| 2025-01-14 | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | 2 | Yen Press | 🎧 |
| 2025-01-16 | SCP Foundation: Iris Through the Looking Glass | 1 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🎧 |
Ah. In that case, what novels would you recommend? I wouldn’t be against adding another series to my list.
My personal top 3 are:
#1 Ascendance of a Bookworm (who would have thought…)
#2 Cooking With Wild Game (I stand firm in my opinion that his is the series that’s most similar to Bookworm even though nobody believes me. They’re wrong. I am right.)
#3 Tearmoon Empire (You’ve probably seen me bitch about the later volume’s translation but that’s only because those early volumes were the only non-English books I’ve ever read where the translation was so good that it stood out. Before that I thought the best-case scenario would be me not noticing it like CGI in movies)
Bookworm was one that I ended up dropping for some bizarre reason. I think it was just a perceived lack of progress? As for the second, I think that was one you’ve suggested before, and I’ll give it a shot!
That’s a really funny way to spell “Reincarnated as a Sword”
Kidding, kidding.
I think I would place it somewhere in my top 10 or top 15. But you’ve seen how many books I read so it’s still very high. And I would have placed the early volumes higher.