Part 1 Volume 2

This is the second volume of the Ascendance of a Bookworm Part 1 light novel adaption written by Miya Kazuki and illustrated by You Shiina.

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 Benno the merchant: With her friend Lutz's help, she will make a paper prototype that he can sell in his shop. In exchange, he will take her and Lutz on as apprentices. But making the prototype is filled with its own challenges, and can she trust a conniving merchant like Benno? And the most important question is, does Myne have the deadly sickness known as "The Devouring"?

Follow Myne's efforts to become this world's first librarian in volume 2 of this biblio-fantasy dedicated to book lovers!


 * Prologue
 * Chapter 1: The Road to Washi
 * Chapter 2: Invitation to the Otto Residence
 * Chapter 3: Summons from Benno
 * Chapter 4: Contract Magic
 * Chapter 5: Lutz's Most Important Job
 * Chapter 6: Ordering Tools and Materials
 * Chapter 7: Starting to Make Paper
 * Chapter 8: Painful Mistakes
 * Chapter 9: Lutz's Myne
 * Chapter 10: Completed Paper
 * Chapter 11: The Merchants' Guild
 * Chapter 12: The Guildmaster and the Hair Ornament
 * Chapter 13: The Guildmaster's Granddaughter
 * Chapter 14: Freida's Hair Ornament
 * Chapter 15: Delivering the Hair Ornaments
 * Chapter 16: Winter Handiwork
 * Chapter 17: Lutz's Training Curriculum
 * Chapter 18: Why It Failed and How to Fix It
 * Chapter 19: A Trombe Appears
 * Chapter 20: We Went Ahead and Made Some
 * Chapter 21: Myne Collapses
 * Epilogue
 * Corinna's Married Life
 * Gossiping by the Well
 * Afterword

Characters are listed in order of appearance.


 * Japanese: 2015-02-25 (ISBN: 978-4864723473)
 * English: 2019-07-09 (ISBN: 978-1718356016)


 * Japanese Volume
 * English Volume