Brandon Sanderson Reading Order

6 books (2007–2022)

Start with Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, the first of 6 books in the Alcatraz series.

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1	Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Dark Talent 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians(With: Janci Patterson) 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

12 books (2013–2026)

Start with Dangerous Women, the first of 12 books in the Anthologies series.

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1	Dangerous Women 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 35, April 2013 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Tor.com: Selected Original Fiction, 2008-2012 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Writing Fantasy Heroes 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Shadows Beneath 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Dragon Writers 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Unfettered II: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Galactic Empires 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	For Glory and Honor 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2016–2016)

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1	Arcanum Unbounded 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2014–2015)

Start with Sixth of the Dusk. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

27 books (1998–2025)

Start with White Sand. Publication and chronological order differ — publication order is recommended for first-time readers.

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1	White Sand 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Way of Kings Prime 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Elantris 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Final Empire 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Hope of Elantris 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Well of Ascension 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Hero of Ages 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Warbreaker 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Way of Kings 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Alloy of Law 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Emperor's Soul 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Words of Radiance 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Shadows of Self 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Edgedancer 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Bands of Mourning 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Oathbringer 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Dawnshard 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Rhythm of War 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	Secret History 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	The Lost Metal 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Sunlit Man 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	Tress of the Emerald Sea 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	Yumi and the Nightmare Painter 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Wind and Truth 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	Isles of the Emberdark 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2021–2023)

Start with Dark One, Book 1 and read in order.

3 books (2005–2012)

Start with Elantris and read in order.

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1	Elantris 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Hope of Elantris 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Emperor's Soul 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2012–2023)

Start with H.A.R.R.E.: Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine(With: Ethan Skarstedt) and read in order.

1 book (2026–2026)

2 books (2011–2013)

Start with Awakening and read in order.

41 books (1985–2025)

Start with L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1, the first of 41 books in the L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future series.

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1	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 1 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 2 1986Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 3 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 4 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 5 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 6 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 8 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future9 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 10 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 11 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 12 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 13 1997Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 14 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 15 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 16 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 17 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 18 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 19 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 20 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 21 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 22 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 23 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 24 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 25 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 26 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 27 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 28 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 29 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 30 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 31 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 32 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 33 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 34 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
35	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 35 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
36	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 36 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
37	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 37 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
38	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 38 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
39	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 39 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
40	L. Ron Hubbard Presents: Writers of the Future 40 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
41	L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 41 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2012–2022)

Start with Legion, the first of 4 books in the Legion series.

#	Title
1	Legion 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Skin Deep 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Lies of the Beholder 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Stephen Leeds: Death and Faxes 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2018–2018)

#	Title
1	The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

17 books (1994–2023)

Start with Arena(By: William R. Forstchen), the first of 17 books in the Magic: The Gathering series.

#	Title
1	Arena(By: William R. Forstchen) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Whispering Woods(By: Clayton Emery) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Final Sacrifice(By: Clayton Emery) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Shattered Chains(By: Clayton Emery) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Cursed Land(By: Teri McLaren) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Prodigal Sorcerer(By: Mark Sumner) 1995Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	And Peace Shall Sleep(By: Sonia Orin Lyris) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Ashes of the Sun(By: Hanovi Braddock) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Dark Legacy(By: Robert Vardeman) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Song of Time(By: Teri McLaren) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Planeswalkers' Guide to Alara(By: Doug Beyer,Jenna Helland) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Alara Unbroken(By: Doug Beyer) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Zendikar: In the Teeth of Akoum(By: Brook Steingass) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Scars of Mirrodin: The Quest for Karn(By: Robert B. Wintermute) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Children of the Nameless 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Throne of Eldraine(By: Kate Elliott) 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	Magic: The Gathering: The Official Cookbook(By: Jenna Helland,Victoria Rosenthal) 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

8 books (2006–2022)

Start with The Final Empire, the first of 8 books in the Mistborn series.

#	Title
1	The Final Empire 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Well of Ascension 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Hero of Ages 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Alloy of Law 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Shadows of Self 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Bands of Mourning 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Secret History 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Lost Metal 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2019–2019)

Start with Oathbringer Part One and read in order.

#	Title
1	Oathbringer Part One 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Oathbringer Part Two 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2024–2024)

#	Title
1	The Most Boring Book Ever 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2013–2016)

Start with Mitosis, the first of 4 books in the Reckoners series.

#	Title
1	Mitosis 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Steelheart 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Firefight 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Calamity 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2026–2026)

5 books (2023–2025)

Start with The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, the first of 5 books in the Secret Projects series.

#	Title
1	The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Sunlit Man 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Tress of the Emerald Sea 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Yumi and the Nightmare Painter 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Isles of the Emberdark 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

13 books (1994–2025)

Start with Centrifugal, the first of 10 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Centrifugal 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Dragonsteel 2001Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Firstborn 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	I Hate Dragons 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	H.A.R.R.E.: Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine(With: Ethan Skarstedt) 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Eleventh Metal 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Dreamer 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Perfect State 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Stormlight Archive Pocket Companion 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Long Chills and Case Dough 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Brain Dump 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Moment Zero 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Probability Approaching Zero 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (2013–2025)

Start with Firstborn & Defending Elysium, the first of 5 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Firstborn & Defending Elysium 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Legion and The Emperor's Soul 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell; Perfect State 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Tailored Realities 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (2018–2023)

Start with Skyward, the first of 4 books in the Skyward series.

#	Title
1	Skyward 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Starsight 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Cytonic 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Defiant 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (2021–2021)

Start with Defending Elysium, the first of 5 books in the Skyward Short Stories/Novellas series.

6 books (1998–2020)

Start with White Sand, the first of 6 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	White Sand 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Dragonsteel Prime 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Warbreaker 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Rithmatist 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Snapshot 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Original(With: Mary Robinette Kowal) 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (2026–2026)

1 book (2021–2021)

12 books (2002–2026)

Start with The Way of Kings Prime, the first of 8 books in the The Stormlight Archive series.

#	Title
1	The Way of Kings Prime 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Way of Kings 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Words of Radiance 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Edgedancer 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Oathbringer 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Dawnshard 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Rhythm of War 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Wind and Truth 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Elsecaller 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Elsecaller / King Lopen the First of Alethkar(With: Dan Wells) 2025Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Elsecaller and King Lopen the First of Alethkar(With: Dan Wells,Erion Makuo,Isaac Stewart,Marie Seeberger) 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	King Lopen the First of Alethkar 2026Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

15 books (1990–2012)

Start with The Eye of the World(By: Robert Jordan), the first of 15 books in the The Wheel of Time series.

#	Title
1	The Eye of the World(By: Robert Jordan) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Great Hunt(By: Robert Jordan) 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Dragon Reborn(By: Robert Jordan) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Shadow Rising(By: Robert Jordan) 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Fires of Heaven(By: Robert Jordan) 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Lord of Chaos(By: Robert Jordan) 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	A Crown of Swords(By: Robert Jordan) 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Path of Daggers(By: Robert Jordan) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Winter's Heart(By: Robert Jordan) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Crossroads of Twilight(By: Robert Jordan) 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	New Spring(By: Robert Jordan) 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Knife of Dreams(By: Robert Jordan) 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Gathering Storm 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Towers of Midnight 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	A Memory of Light 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

15 books (2010–2024)

Start with The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition, the first of 15 books in the The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series.

#	Title
1	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2010 Edition 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2012 Edition 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2015 Edition 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2016 Edition 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2017 Edition 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2018 Edition 2018Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2019 Edition 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 1 2020Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 2 2021Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, Volume 3 2022Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 4 2023Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Volume 5 2024Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

3 books (2009–2012)

Start with What the Storm Means and read in order.

3 books (2016–2019)

Start with White Sand Volume 1 and read in order.

#	Title
1	White Sand Volume 1 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	White Sand Volume 2 2017Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	White Sand Volume 3 2019Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible