Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson was born in December 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested for him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This all changed in eighth grade when an astute teacher, Mrs. Reader, gave Brandon Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly. Brandon thoroughly enjoyed this book, and went in search of anything similar. He discovered such authors as Robert Jordan, Melanie Rawn, David Eddings, Anne McCaffrey, and Orson Scott Card. Brandon continued to be an avid reader through junior high and high school. He liked epic fantasy so much that he even tried his hand at writing some. His first attempts, he says, were dreadful.

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Updated April 9, 2021



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Books by Brandon Sanderson
Elantris (Elantris #1)
★ 8.10 / 40
The Hope of Elantris (Elantris #1.5)
★ 6.00 / 2
Mistborn: The Final Empire (The Mistborn Saga #1)
★ 8.66 / 213
The Well of Ascension (The Mistborn Saga #2)
★ 8.22 / 134
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz #1)
★ 6.50 / 4
The Hero of Ages (The Mistborn Saga #3)
★ 8.40 / 97
Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones (Alcatraz #2)
⧗ 9.00 / 1
Warbreaker (Warbreaker #1)
★ 8.68 / 25
Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia (Alcatraz #3)
⧗ 8.00 / 1
The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time #12)
★ 9.00 / 57
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive #1)
★ 9.04 / 56
Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time #13)
★ 8.74 / 53
Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens (Alcatraz #4)
⧗ 8.00 / 1
The Alloy of Law (The Mistborn Saga #4)
★ 8.28 / 28
Legion (Legion #1)
★ 6.84 / 6
The Emperor's Soul
★ 8.84 / 18
A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time #14)
★ 8.72 / 53
The Rithmatist (The Rithmatist #1)
★ 8.34 / 12
Legion and The Emperor's Soul
★ 8.66 / 3
Steelheart (The Reckoners #1)
★ 7.46 / 13
Mitosis (The Reckoners #1.5)
★ 6.00 / 1
Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2)
★ 9.16 / 33
Sixth of the Dusk
★ 8.00 / 3
Shadows Beneath
N/A
Legion: Skin Deep (Legion #2)
★ 6.66 / 3
Firefight (The Reckoners #2)
★ 7.28 / 7
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell
★ 8.60 / 5
Perfect State
★ 7.66 / 3
Shadows of Self (The Mistborn Saga #5)
★ 7.86 / 14
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell and Perfect State
★ 5.00 / 1
Mistborn: Secret History (The Mistborn Saga #3.5)
★ 7.58 / 7
The Bands of Mourning (The Mistborn Saga #6)
★ 8.64 / 17
Calamity (The Reckoners #3)
★ 8.14 / 7
White Sand: Volume 1 (White Sand #1)
★ 8.00 / 2
The Dark Talent (Alcatraz #5)
⧗ 8.00 / 1
Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
★ 8.80 / 5
Snapshot
★ 6.00 / 1
Edgedancer (The Stormlight Archive #2.5)
★ 8.84 / 6
Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive #3)
★ 9.16 / 13
White Sand: Volume 2 (White Sand #2)
★ 8.00 / 2
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
★ 6.00 / 1
Legion: Lies of the Beholder (Legion #3)
★ 7.00 / 1
Skyward (Skyward #1)
★ 8.60 / 5
White Sand: Volume 3 (White Sand #3)
★ 8.50 / 2
Starsight (Skyward #2)
★ 7.66 / 3
The Way of Kings Prime
★ 6.00 / 1
The Original
★ 8.00 / 1
Dawnshard (The Stormlight Archive #3.5)
★ 8.90 / 10
Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive #4)
★ 9.12 / 17
The Dark One: Volume 1 (The Dark One #1)
★ 8.00 / 1
Lux (Texas Reckoners #1)
⧗ 9.00 / 2
Skyward Flight: Sunreach (Skyward #2.5)
★ 8.50 / 2
Skyward Flight: ReDawn (Skyward #2.6)
★ 8.50 / 2
Cytonic (Skyward #3)
★ 9.00 / 2
Skyward Flight: Evershore (Skyward #3.5)
★ 8.00 / 2
Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach, ReDawn, Evershore
⧗ 10.00 / 1
Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz #6)
★ 8.26 / 4
The Lost Metal (The Mistborn Saga #7)
★ 8.42 / 21
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Secret Project #1)
★ 9.26 / 8
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Project #2)
★ 8.50 / 2
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (Secret Project #3)
★ 8.50 / 2
The Sunlit Man (Secret Project #4)
⧗ 8.60 / 5
Defiant (Skyward #4)
⧗ 9.58 / 7

Series by Brandon Sanderson

The Wheel of Time (18 books)
Alcatraz (6 books)
The Reckoners (4 books)
Legion (4 books)
Cosmere (4 books)
- White Sand (3 books)
- Warbreaker (2 books)
- Elantris (3 books)
- Secret Project (4 books)
- Dragonsteel (3 books)
- The Mistborn Saga (14 books)
Skyward (8 books)
- Skyward Legacy (1 books)
The Dark One (2 books)
The Rithmatist (2 books)

Speculative Fiction Novels

(Dragonsteel #3 / 3)
2043 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date TBA
(Dragonsteel #2 / 3)
2041 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date TBA
(Dragonsteel #1 / 3)
2039 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date TBA
(The Stormlight Archive #10 / 10)
2036 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date TBA
(The Mistborn Saga #13 / 13)
2035 | science fiction, space opera | Release date TBA
(Elantris #2 / 2)
2035 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date TBA
(The Stormlight Archive #9 / 10)
2034 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date TBA
(The Mistborn Saga #12 / 13)
2033 | science fiction, space opera | Release date TBA
(The Stormlight Archive #8 / 10)
2032 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date TBA
(The Mistborn Saga #11 / 13)
2031 | science fiction, space opera | Release date TBA
(The Stormlight Archive #7 / 10)
2030 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date TBA
(The Rithmatist #2 / 2)
2030 | fantasy, young adult | Release date TBA
(The Stormlight Archive #6 / 10)
2028 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date TBA
(Warbreaker #2 / 2)
2027 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date TBA
(Texas Reckoners #2 / 2)
2024 | science fiction, young adult | Release date TBA
(The Mistborn Saga #10 / 13)
2027 | science fiction, fantasy, thriller | Release date 2027
(The Mistborn Saga #9 / 13)
2026 | science fiction, fantasy, thriller | Release date 2026
(The Mistborn Saga #8 / 13)
2025 | science fiction, fantasy, thriller | Release date 2025
(The Stormlight Archive #5 / 10)
2024 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date November 2024
(Skyward Legacy #1 / 1)
2024 | science fiction, young adult | Release date 2024
(Skyward #4 / 4)
2023 | science fiction, young adult | Release date November 21, 2023
(Secret Project #4 / 4)
2023 | fantasy, high fantasy | Release date October 10, 2023
(Secret Project #3 / 4)
2023 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Secret Project #2 / 4)
2023 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Secret Project #1 / 4)
2023 | fantasy, high fantasy
(The Mistborn Saga #7 / 13)
2022 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Alcatraz #6 / 6)
2022 | fantasy, young adult
(Skyward)
2022 | science fiction, collection, young adult
(Skyward #3.5 / 4)
2021 | science fiction, young adult
(Skyward #3 / 4)
2021 | science fiction, young adult
(Skyward #2.6 / 4)
2021 | science fiction, young adult
(Skyward #2.5 / 4)
2021 | science fiction, young adult
(Texas Reckoners #1 / 2)
2021 | science fiction, young adult
(The Stormlight Archive #4 / 10)
2020 | fantasy, high fantasy
(The Stormlight Archive #3.5 / 10)
2020 | fantasy, high fantasy
2020 | science fiction, thriller
(The Stormlight Archive)
2020 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Skyward #2 / 4)
2019 | science fiction, young adult
(Skyward #1 / 4)
2018 | science fiction, young adult
(Legion #3 / 3)
2018 | science fiction
(Legion)
2018 | science fiction, collection
(The Stormlight Archive #3 / 10)
2017 | fantasy, high fantasy
(The Stormlight Archive #2.5 / 10)
2017 | fantasy, high fantasy
2017 | science fiction
(Cosmere)
2016 | fantasy, high fantasy, short stories
(Alcatraz #5 / 6)
2016 | fantasy, young adult
(The Reckoners #3 / 3)
2016 | science fiction, young adult
(The Mistborn Saga #6 / 13)
2016 | fantasy, high fantasy
(The Mistborn Saga #3.5 / 13)
2016 | fantasy, high fantasy
(The Mistborn Saga #5 / 13)
2015 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Cosmere)
2015 | fantasy, high fantasy
2015 | science fiction, fantasy
2015 | science fiction, fantasy, short stories
(The Reckoners #2 / 3)
2014 | science fiction, young adult
(Legion #2 / 3)
2014 | science fiction
(Cosmere)
2014 | fantasy, high fantasy
(The Stormlight Archive #2 / 10)
2014 | fantasy, high fantasy
(The Reckoners #1.5 / 3)
2013 | science fiction, short stories, young adult
(The Reckoners #1 / 3)
2013 | science fiction, young adult
2013 | science fiction, fantasy, collection
(The Rithmatist #1 / 2)
2013 | fantasy, young adult
(The Wheel of Time #14 / 14)
2013 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Cosmere)
2012 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Legion #1 / 3)
2012 | science fiction
(The Mistborn Saga #4 / 13)
2011 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Alcatraz #4 / 6)
2010 | fantasy, young adult
(The Wheel of Time #13 / 14)
2010 | fantasy, high fantasy
(The Stormlight Archive #1 / 10)
2010 | fantasy, high fantasy
(The Wheel of Time #12 / 14)
2009 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Alcatraz #3 / 6)
2009 | fantasy, young adult
(Warbreaker #1 / 2)
2009 | fantasy, high fantasy
(The Mistborn Saga #3 / 13)
2008 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Alcatraz #2 / 6)
2008 | fantasy, young adult
(The Mistborn Saga #2 / 13)
2007 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Alcatraz #1 / 6)
2007 | fantasy, young adult
(The Mistborn Saga #1 / 13)
2006 | fantasy, high fantasy
(Elantris #1.5 / 2)
2006 | fantasy, high fantasy, short stories
(Elantris #1 / 2)
2005 | fantasy, high fantasy

Comics and Anthology

(The Dark One #2 / 2)
2023 | fantasy, comics | Release date TBA
(The Dark One #1 / 2)
2021 | fantasy, comics
(White Sand #3 / 3)
2019 | fantasy, comics
(White Sand #2 / 3)
2018 | fantasy, comics
(White Sand #1 / 3)
2016 | fantasy, comics
2014 | fantasy, anthology