Author
Brandon Sanderson
Birth Date
December 19, 1975
(50 Years)
Associated Country
United States
Brandon Sanderson is an American author best known for expansive fantasy worlds, intricate magic systems, and ambitious interconnected storytelling. His work combines large-scale political and cosmic conflicts with approachable prose, memorable characters, and carefully structured worldbuilding, helping establish him as one of the defining voices in modern fantasy. Readers, demonstrating alarming upper-body strength, routinely carry around his thousand-page novels without complaint.
Sanderson first gained major attention with novels such as Elantris and the original Mistborn trilogy before being chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series following Jordan’s death. His successful completion of the series introduced his work to a wider international audience and further cemented his reputation within epic fantasy. He later expanded his own interconnected fictional universe known as the Cosmere, which links multiple series and standalone works through shared lore and recurring concepts.
Among Sanderson’s best-known works are The Stormlight Archive, Mistborn, Warbreaker, Tress of the Emerald Sea, and numerous novellas and companion stories set throughout the Cosmere. Outside of fantasy, he has also written young adult and science fiction series including The Reckoners, Skyward, and the Alcatraz books. In addition to his fiction, Sanderson is widely recognized for his lectures and discussions on writing craft, as well as for his unusually direct and transparent relationship with readers.
Sanderson first gained major attention with novels such as Elantris and the original Mistborn trilogy before being chosen to complete Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series following Jordan’s death. His successful completion of the series introduced his work to a wider international audience and further cemented his reputation within epic fantasy. He later expanded his own interconnected fictional universe known as the Cosmere, which links multiple series and standalone works through shared lore and recurring concepts.
Among Sanderson’s best-known works are The Stormlight Archive, Mistborn, Warbreaker, Tress of the Emerald Sea, and numerous novellas and companion stories set throughout the Cosmere. Outside of fantasy, he has also written young adult and science fiction series including The Reckoners, Skyward, and the Alcatraz books. In addition to his fiction, Sanderson is widely recognized for his lectures and discussions on writing craft, as well as for his unusually direct and transparent relationship with readers.
Books
All his life, Sixth of the Dusk has been a traditional trapper of Aviar—the supernatural birds his people bond with—on the deadly island of Patji. Then one fateful night he propels his people into a...
Wind and Truth 2024
The Stormlight Archive, Book 5
Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare—and the sudden ascension of the crafty...
The Sunlit Man 2024
Years ago he had comrades in arms and a cause to believe in, but now the man who calls himself Nomad knows only a life on the run. Forced to hop from world to world in the Cosmere whenever the...
Yumi has spent her entire life in strict obedience, granting her the power to summon the spirits that bestow vital aid upon her society—but she longs for even a single day as a normal person.
Painter...
White Sand 2023
On the planet of Taldain, the legendary Sand Masters harness arcane powers to manipulate sand in spectacular ways. But when they are slaughtered in a sinister conspiracy, the weakest of their number,...
The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to...
The Lost Metal 2022
Mistborn, Book 7
For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set—with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders—since they started kidnapping...
Mistborn 2022
Kelsier, sentenced to die mining the Pits of Hathsin after attempting to rob the Lord Ruler’s palace, arose as a powerful Mistborn and inspired the revolution that shook the foundations of the Final...
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, Book 6
As a Knight of Crystallia, I, Bastille, swore to protect the Smedry clan from the Evil Librarians. (And believe me, screwups like them constantly need protecting.) But when Alcatraz Smedry got...
Skyward Flight 2022
Journey with Skyward Flight to Detritus—humanity’s final refuge from the hostile Galactic Superiority government.
In Skyward, Spensa Nightshade became a starfighter pilot in the Defiant Defense...
Dawnshard 2022
When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy...
Lux 2021
When the great red star Calamity appeared in the sky, some believed the end had come. They were right.
Calamity created the Epics: humans with incredible powers they didn't deserve.
They could have...
Rhythm of War 2020
The Stormlight Archive, Book 4
After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an...
White Sand 2019
White Sand, Book 3
Underpowered and overwhelmed, Kenton tries to hold the Sand Masters together as forces political and personal conspire against them.
Now, in one final push, Kenton must tap the most dangerous depths...
Legion 2018
Stephen Leeds is perfectly sane. It's his hallucinations who are mad. A genius of unrivaled aptitude, Stephen can learn any new skill, vocation, or art in a matter of hours. However, to contain all of...
White Sand 2018
White Sand, Book 2
Following the loss of most of his colleagues in a violent ambush, Kenton has become Lord Mastrell of the few remaining Sand Masters, magicians who can manipulate sand to do their bidding.
With the...
Oathbringer 2017
The Stormlight Archive, Book 3
The War of Reckoning comes to a sudden and destructive close as a new, far greater threat appears on the field of battle, kindled by the deadly Everstorm.
Dalinar and the Alethi forces take refuge...
Edgedancer 2017
Lift, a newly raised Knight Radiant, arrives in Yeddaw in search of another Radiant, and for the famous Yeddaw pancakes.
With her spren-companion Wyndle, she must discover the identity of the local...
Arcanum Unbounded 2016
The Stormlight Archive novella "Edgedancer" is the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, which includes novellas and short stories from the worlds of the Stormlight Archive, the...
The Dark Talent 2016
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, Book 5
Alcatraz Smedry has successfully defeated the army of Evil Librarians and saved the kingdom of Mokia.
Too bad he managed to break the Smedry Talents in the process. Even worse, his father is trying...
The Shattered Lens 2016
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, Book 4
Alcatraz Smedry is up against a whole army of Evil Librarians in this fourth adventure, with only his friend Bastille, a few pairs of glasses, and an unlimited supply of exploding teddy bears to help...
White Sand 2016
White Sand, Book 1
On the planet of Taldain, the legendary Sand Masters harness arcane powers to manipulate sand in spectacular ways. But when they are slaughtered in a sinister conspiracy, the weakest of their number,...
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, Book 3
In this third Alcatraz adventure, Alcatraz Smedry has made it to the Free Kingdoms at last. Unfortunately, so have the evil Librarians—including his mother!
Now Alcatraz has to find a traitor among...
Calamity 2016
The Reckoners, Book 3
When Calamity lit up the sky, the Epics were born. David’s fate has been tied to their villainy ever since that historic night. Steelheart killed his father. Firefight stole his heart. And now Regalia...
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, Book 1
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail—his only inheritance from his father and mother. He soon learns that this is no ordinary bag of sand.
It is...
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, Book 2
The Evil Librarians are up to their antics again and it's up to Alcatraz Smedry to put a stop to it! This second Alcatraz adventure will take Alcatraz and company on an exploration of the Library of...
Mistborn, Book 6
The Bands of Mourning are the mythical metalminds once owned by the Lord Ruler, said to grant anyone who wears them the powers that the Lord Ruler had at his command. Hardly anyone thinks they truly...
Shadows of Self 2015
Mistborn, Book 5
Waxillium Ladrian was a lawman in Scadrial's ungoverned frontier region, known as the Roughs, where he worked with his eccentric but effective buddy, Wayne. They are "twinborn," meaning they are able...
Firefight 2015
The Reckoners, Book 2
Newcago is free. They told David it was impossible, that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet Steelheart—invincible, immortal, unconquerable—is dead. And he died by David's...
The Rithmatist 2014
More than anything, Joel wants to be a Rithmatist. Rithmatists have the power to infuse life into two-dimensional figures known as Chalklings. Rithmatists are humanity's only defense against the Wild...
Words of Radiance 2014
The Stormlight Archive, Book 2
Six years ago, the Assassin in White, a hireling of the inscrutable Parshendi, assassinated the Alethi king on the very night a treaty between men and Parshendi was being celebrated. So began the...
Mitosis 2013
Mitosis returns to the world of the Reckoners series shortly after the events of Steelheart. In the ruins of Newcago, David Charleston and the Reckoners continue their fight against the Epics,...
Steelheart 2013
The Reckoners, Book 1
Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary people extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics.
Epics are no friends of man. With incredible gifts...
Infinity Blade 2013
Redemption
Infinity Blade, Book 2
Long months have passed since Siris and the God King, enemies betrayedtogether, were left to rot in the prison at the Vault of Tears. Their true enemy -- the Worker of Secrets, creator of the Infinity...
A Memory of Light 2013
The Wheel of Time, Book 14
The Last Battle has begun, and the world stands on the edge of annihilation. Rand al’Thor prepares to face the Dark One, knowing that whatever happens in that confrontation will decide the fate of all...
The Emperor's Soul 2012
Shai is a Forger, a foreigner who can flawlessly copy and re-create any item by rewriting its history with skillful magic. Although condemned to death after trying to steal the emperor’s scepter, she...
The Alloy of Law 2011
Mistborn, Book 4
Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the...
Infinity Blade 2011
Awakening
Infinity Blade, Book 1
Trained from birth in swordplay and combat, a young knight named Siris has journeyed to the Dark Citadel with a single purpose: fight through the army of Titans to face the tyrannical God King in...
Towers of Midnight 2010
The Wheel of Time, Book 13
With the Last Battle approaching, Rand al’Thor moves to bring the rulers of the world into alignment, pushing for agreements that will determine how humanity stands against the Shadow. His actions,...
The Way of Kings 2010
The Stormlight Archive, Book 1
Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells,...
The Gathering Storm 2009
The Wheel of Time, Book 12
Rand al’Thor’s grip on himself begins to fracture as he pushes forward with increasingly extreme decisions. Seeking to force unity before the Last Battle, he confronts rulers, uses overwhelming power...
Warbreaker 2009
Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the...
The Hero of Ages 2008
Mistborn, Book 3
Who is the Hero of Ages? To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness—the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists—is back, along with increasingly...
Mistborn, Book 2
The impossible has been accomplished. The Lord Ruler - the man who claimed to be god incarnate and brutally ruled the world for a thousand years - has been vanquished. But Kelsier, the hero who...
Elantris 2006
Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods...