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He Who Fights with Monsters Books in Order

by ShirtaloonScience Fiction & Fantasy

13 books from He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure (2021) to He Who Fights with Monsters 13: A LitRPG Adventure (2026). Rated 4.8 across 288,647 listener reviews.

Reading order

He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure

Book 1 2021 4.7 (48.4k)

Selected as one of Audible's best audiobooks of 2021 Jason wakes up in a mysterious world of magic and monsters. It’s not easy making the career jump from office-supplies-store middle manager to heroic interdimensional adventurer.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 2

Book 2 2021 4.9 (33.8k)

The path from retail middle management to inter-dimensional wizard adventurer wasn’t easy. But Jason Asano is settling into his new life. Now, a contest draws young elites to the city of Greenstone to compete for a grand prize.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 3

Book 3 2021 4.8 (29k)

For all that Jason knows, life is amazing. But he's about to learn that all his new power, wealth, and influence comes at a price.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 4

Book 4 2021 4.8 (28.8k)

In the wake of an unexpected homecoming, Jason questions if there is still a place for him in the world he left behind. Forced to confront what he has become in his time away, he feels more alien than ever.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 5

Book 5 2022 4.8 (24.5k)

Jason has discovered that his homeworld is not what he thought. What’s more, the rest of the planet is on the precipice of sharing his revelation.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 6

Book 6 2022 4.9 (24.2k)

The world teeters on the brink of destruction. The people who should be saving the Earth ignore Jason Asano's warnings and choose to loot the house as it burns down around them.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 7

Book 7 2022 4.9 (24.1k)

Jason arrives at a kingdom in peril and he's surprised to discover that it's not his job to save it. With the authorities fulfilling their responsibilities (for once), he looks forward to some quiet time to rest and recuperate.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 8

Book 8 2022 4.8 (19.2k)

After a much longed-for reunion, Jason Asano works on moving past old traumas as he looks to a brighter future. Despite warnings of danger that awaits him, he gets back in the saddle as an adventurer, ready to tackle new challenges.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 9

Book 9 2023 4.8 (11.9k)

With the Builder threat behind them, the time has finally come for Jason and his team to hit the road. Eager to get back to the adventuring he’s been longing for, Jason is excited to not be at the center of world-changing events.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 10

Book 10 2023 4.8 (15k)

A subterranean power creates strange bedfellows for Jason and his friends in the epic next installment of He Who Fights with Monsters. Following the devastating attack on Yaresh, its people are left to pick up the pieces.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 11: A LitRPG Adventure

Book 11 2024 4.9 (14.6k)

Jason and his companions managed to forestall the inexorable undead, but their battle is far from done. Both they and their enemies are scattered across a strange realm, one that someone must conquer if anyone is to get out alive.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 12: A LitRPG Adventure

Book 12 2025 4.8 (14.2k)

Twenty years ago, Jason was pulled into a world of magic and monsters. He was promised a life of wandering his new home and having adventures, but things got out of hand pretty quickly.

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He Who Fights with Monsters 13: A LitRPG Adventure

Book 13 2026 4.8 (935)

The last time Jason Asano returned to Earth, it didn't go great. Isolated from his friends and forced to work with people who had betrayed him time and again, he had come perilously close to becoming worse than the monsters he fought.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for He Who Fights with Monsters is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.