Deacon Frost Books in Order

Where to Start with Deacon Frost

For readers new to Deacon Frost, your best starting point depends heavily on your preferred fantasy subgenre:

• For Magic Academy & Isekai Progression: Begin with the Otherworld Academy series, starting with Raven House. This is Frost's most popular and highly recommended series, following a reincarnated protagonist adapting to a magical magic school system.
• For Gritty Action with Harem Elements: Begin with the Avalar Explored series, starting with Accidental Incubus. This is Frost's breakout debut series and features high-stakes survival, gaming mechanics, and explicit content.
• For Cultivation & Beast Companions: Start with the Rider's Dragon series, beginning with Nemesis, which follows a dragon protagonist growing in power within a cultivation-based system.
• For Sci-Fi LitRPG: Start with Singularity Tower, a sci-fi progression series set inside a massive alien megastructure.

Otherworld Academy Series

This series follows Levi Walker, a college student who dies and reincarnates into the magical fantasy world of Taryl. It blends magic academy tropes with LitRPG progression. Note that there is a mid-series vacation short story and a final epilogue novella that wrap up the narrative.

Recommended Reading Order:

1. Raven House (2022)
2. Otherworld Vacation (Short story, takes place between Books 1 and 2; often included in omnibus releases)
3. Second Term (2022)
4. Test Flight (2022)
5. Empire's Run (2023)
6. I, Demon Lord (2023)
7. Magi Reborn (2024)
8. Nesting Day (2024) (Epilogue novella following characters Maledict, Imri, and Levi)

Avalar Explored Series

This is Deacon Frost's debut LitRPG series set in a kill-or-be-killed fantasy universe. It follows Jace Blackbriar, an apprentice blacksmith turned demon incubus. The story includes heavy HaremLit themes and gaming progression mechanics. The series is complete at five novels.

Reading Order:

1. Accidental Incubus (2021)
2. Saltwater's Weep (2021)
3. Tempest Tide (2022)
4. Leviathan Below (2022)
5. Shade Sovereign (2022)

Rider's Dragon Series

A cultivation fantasy and HaremLit series focusing on Nemesis, a dragon hatched into captivity who fights back for his freedom alongside a half-elf companion named Harper. The series is complete and also available as a single omnibus collection.

Reading Order:

1. Nemesis (2023)
2. Siege (2023)
3. Sect (2024)
4. War (2024)

Otherworld Adventures Series

Set in a world called Ordinal, this isekai series follows Vester Gambit after a fatal bus accident. Vester is dropped into a system managed by gods who try to lock him out of participating, forcing him to carve his own progression path.

Reading Order:

1. Ordinal Trail (2023)
2. Delving Deep (2023)
3. Journey Below (2024)

Hollow Earth Apocalypse Series

A post-apocalyptic LitRPG and monster-taming series following Pax, a survivor who unlocks the ability to forge defeated monsters' souls into powerful mechanical constructs.

Reading Order:

1. Ashes Fall (2023)
2. Challenge Rift (2024)
3. Beast Wave (2024)

Singularity Tower Series

A sci-fi LitRPG series featuring Gideon Pike, a laborer sentenced to mine materials from a mysterious alien megastructure suspended over a black hole.

Reading Order:

1. Singularity Tower (2023)
2. Singularity Tower 2 (2024)

Standalone Novels, Anthologies, & Side Projects

Deacon Frost has written a few other side projects and standalone entries that do not require prior reading:

• Fall to the Forest (2021) – The first book in the planned Dungeons of Underhill series, featuring a dungeon core premise where fairies seed Earth with dungeons.
• Dragons & Damsels (2023) – A multi-author HaremLit anthology containing a short story by Deacon Frost.