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Lincoln, Nebraska, born 19 Dec. 1975
He wrote thirteen novels before selling one. Since Elantris, he has been building the Cosmere, a universe where each world has its own magic, bound by strict rules, and where the books end up answering one another.
Above the axis, books of the Cosmere. Below, the others. Tap a dot to jump to the book.
The Cosmere: Scadrial, 2006–2022
Brandon Sanderson
For a thousand years the Lord Ruler has reigned over a world of ash. Vin, a street thief, discovers she can “burn” metals and joins Kelsier’s crew, who are planning the heist of the century: overthrowing the empire.
Brandon Sanderson
The empire has fallen, and ruling turns out to be harder than toppling. Three armies besiege Luthadel, and something stirs in the mists.
Brandon Sanderson
The end of the world has begun. Vin and Elend hunt for the Lord Ruler’s last caches while the true nature of their enemy is revealed.
Brandon Sanderson
What happened behind the scenes during Era One. Read it after The Hero of Ages, ideally after The Alloy of Law.
Brandon Sanderson
Three centuries later, the world of Mistborn has discovered railways and electricity. Waxillium Ladrian, a lawman of the Roughs, comes back to the city to lead his noble house.
Brandon Sanderson
Wax and his sidekick Wayne hunt a killer who can wear any face, while the city of Elendel is on the brink of riots.
Brandon Sanderson
An expedition to the South, in search of legendary bracers said to grant the powers of the Lord Ruler.
Brandon Sanderson
The last adventure of Wax and Wayne, in which the whole Cosmere takes the stage.
The Cosmere: Roshar, since 2010
Brandon Sanderson
On Roshar, a world scoured by storms, Kaladin, a surgeon turned slave, Shallan, a young scholar with dangerous secrets, and Dalinar, a highprince haunted by visions, see the Knights Radiant return. The first of ten planned volumes.
Brandon Sanderson
The expedition to the Shattered Plains becomes a race against the Everstorm, and Shallan joins Dalinar’s camp.
Brandon Sanderson
Lift, a thieving kid and Edgedancer, goes to Yeddaw to save someone the Herald Nalan is hunting.
Brandon Sanderson
Dalinar’s past resurfaces as he tries to unite the nations of Roshar against the Enemy.
Brandon Sanderson
Rysn, a merchant who uses a wheelchair, sails for the cursed island of Akinah.
Brandon Sanderson
A year after the battle of Thaylen Field, the war bogs down. Navani starts researching the nature of Light.
Brandon Sanderson
Ten days to decide the future of Roshar: the end of the Archive’s first arc.
Elantris, Nalthis, Sel and worlds further out
Brandon Sanderson
His first published novel: the magical city of Elantris has fallen and its people have become cursed beings. Prince Raoden wakes up one morning among them.
Brandon Sanderson
Two princesses, one promised to a god-king, and a magic built on colour and Breath. Sanderson published it free online while he wrote it.
Brandon Sanderson
A forger who can rewrite the history of objects has a hundred days to recreate an emperor’s soul. Hugo Award for Best Novella.
Brandon Sanderson
An innkeeper and bounty hunter, in a forest where you must not run, light a fire or spill blood.
Brandon Sanderson
A trapper and his protective bird, on islands where everything wants to kill you, see strangers arrive from the sky.
Brandon Sanderson
The Cosmere stories and novellas collected, with essays and maps of each system.
Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin and Julius Gopez
On Taldain, a world of magical sand, the sole survivor of an order of sand masters. A comics trilogy adapted from an unpublished novel.
Brandon Sanderson
The first of the “secret projects”: a young woman sets sail on a sea of green spores to rescue her sweetheart. A Princess Bride-style tale, told by Hoid.
Brandon Sanderson
A priestess who stacks stones for the spirits and a painter who hunts nightmares swap lives.
Brandon Sanderson
On a planet where sunrise burns everything, a fugitive must keep moving. The book that looks furthest into the Cosmere’s future.
Brandon Sanderson
The fifth “secret project”, a seafaring adventure among the islands of the Emberdark.
Science fiction, superheroes and fantasy for young readers
Brandon Sanderson
Epics have superpowers and no conscience. David, whose father was killed by Steelheart, joins the Reckoners, who hunt them.
Brandon Sanderson
The Reckoners take on Babilar, the former Manhattan, flooded and ruled by Regalia.
Brandon Sanderson
The end of the trilogy and the secret of Calamity, the star that gave the Epics their powers.
Brandon Sanderson
Spensa dreams of becoming a pilot to defend her planet, but her father is branded a coward. She finds a wrecked starship with a chatty AI.
Brandon Sanderson
Spensa goes undercover among the enemy, the species of the Superiority.
Brandon Sanderson
Spensa dives into the Nowhere, home of the mysterious delvers.
Brandon Sanderson
The end of the series, when Spensa must face the delvers and the Superiority at once.
Brandon Sanderson
In an academy where magicians bring chalk drawings to life, a passionate boy with no power investigates disappearances.
Brandon Sanderson
Stephen Leeds, a genius who creates “aspects”, imaginary people expert in all kinds of fields. The three novellas collected.
Brandon Sanderson
The second “secret project”: a man with no memory wakes up in medieval England, with only a badly translated travel guide to help him.
Comedy for young readers, 2007–2022
Brandon Sanderson
On his thirteenth birthday, Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand and learns that evil librarians secretly rule the world. A comedy that mocks everything, starting with its narrator.
Brandon Sanderson
An expedition into the Library of Alexandria, guarded by ghosts who collect knowledge.
Brandon Sanderson
Alcatraz finally reaches the Free Kingdoms, threatened by the librarians.
Brandon Sanderson
The siege of Mokia, the last free kingdom still holding out.
Brandon Sanderson
The most dangerous Smedry Talent, and the ending promised since the first book.
Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson
Bastille, Knight of Crystallia, tells the story. Written with Janci Patterson.
Robert Jordan’s series, completed by Brandon Sanderson
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Robert Jordan died in 2007 before finishing his series. His widow chose Sanderson to write it from his notes. The last book became three volumes, this one first.
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Perrin, Mat and Egwene advance towards the Last Battle.
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
The Last Battle, and the end of a series begun in 1990.