Ascendance of a Bookworm - Part 1 - Recommendations

• Vol: 8+; Ch: 65+
• 2015 - ?

Iris, an otome game addict with no time for romance, gets hit by a truck after getting out of work–but instead of dying, she finds herself in the world of a game she'd played just hours earlier. However, she's not reborn as the game's protagonist, the main heartthrob of the harem. Instead, she starts her new life as the antagonist, right at the moment she's being sent to live in a nunnery–for the rest of her life!

• Vol: 2; Ch: 14
• 2017 - 2018

While Aida Kiyoka is working at her part-time cleaning job, she suddenly trips to a parallel universe. A kind lady takes her in and she begins her new life there. However she faces one big problem, normal households in this world do not have bathtubs! As a person who has an unusual love for cleanliness and loves taking baths, for Kiyoka this is an utterly unbearable situation. However, one day, she hears that the King is recruiting a side consort. She thinks, 'If I become a consort, won't I be able to have baths every day?' and immediately applies. A unique trip fantasy, about a girl who loves to clean (clean-freak in denial) and her road to her dreamed bath.

• Vol: 11+; Ch: 94+
• 2017 - ?

After growing up an orphan, Mitsuha has a healthy respect for money and a desire to live well--at least, until she dies after being pushed off a cliff. Waking up in a strange fantasy world, Mitsuha narrowly survives an encounter with a pack of wolves, then realizes she has the power to move between this world and the real one. A lesser person might embark on heroic adventures--Mitsuha instead immediately recognizes the lucrative possibilities of her new situation, and heads out to buy an arsenal of modern weapons. Her goal: to acquire 80,000 gold, and the life of leisure she's always dreamed of!

• Vol: 10+; Ch: 66+
• 2017 - ?

At the age of eight, Katarina, a girl of noble birth in another world, has an accident that unlocks her memories–of playing an otome game that’s exactly like the life she’s living now. There’s one problem: she realizes that she’s playing the role of the villainess, and only bad endings await her! What will it take for her to “break the game” and live a happy life?

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 8+
• 2020 - ?

A middle-aged engineer who was weary of life ended up being reborn into a different world as Zack, the son of a frontier feudal lord. Once there, he received a mission from God. He was told to prepare himself for the task of “guiding the future hero of the world”. With that in mind, Zack not only trained himself in swordsmanship and magic but also committed himself towards reforming problems in hygiene and education. After developing a new local product, Zack was reminded of his once forgotten dream: brewing alcohol! As he resurrected his long lost passion, it was the beginning of his “Dream Life”.

• Vol: 5+; Ch: 21+
• 2020 - ?

Ivy's daily life is anything but the peaceful, ordinary childhood enjoyed by other children. She possesses memories of a past life in another world, and at five years old, she learns to her parents' shame that she only has one low-level skill: taming extremely weak creatures. Unwanted by her family, she begins living in a nearby forest, learning to survive on her own with the help of her village's local fortune-teller. But when Ivy's "starless" existence is blamed for the old woman's misfortune a few years later, the child is forced to flee to avoid being killed. She journies from town to town collecting discarded items and selling what she can, until one day Ivy encounters a rare slime that she names Sora. What adventures await the young girl and her slimy new companion?

• Vol: 26; Ch: 233
• 2017 - 2022

One fateful day, all of humanity was petrified by a blinding flash of light. After several millennia, high schooler Taiju awakens and finds himself lost in a world of statues. However, he's not alone! His science-loving friend Senku's been up and running for a few months and he's got a grand plan in mind—to kickstart civilization with the power of science!

• Vol: 5; Ch: 26
• 2019 - 2022

When a “god” tells Tsukina that she is to be transported to another world to become its savior, Tsukina isn’t interested. As a bookish thirty-something, she has zero desire to go on some big adventure…so when she arrives in the strange new land, she decides to use her magical powers to create a cozy little book café instead. But when a fellow “savior” starts causing trouble, Tsukina might just have to play the hero, after all!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 19
• 2021 - 2023

A man who loved magic so much that he stayed a virgin untill age 30! What will happen when he's reborn into an isekai where there's no magic? Will he be able to become -- a pioneer of magic?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 22
• 2018 - 2021