Brandon Sanderson bibliography

This is the bibliography of American fantasy and science fiction writer Brandon Sanderson.

Published and scheduled works

The Cosmere

Sanderson writes many of his works in an overarching universe known as the Cosmere with series tending to be on different planets within that universe. The works, especially the magic systems within them, are often subtly connected, and some characters appear across the various series.[1]

Cosmere novels
Main articles: Elantris, Mistborn, Warbreaker, and The Stormlight Archive
TitleYearSeries Publisher ISBNNotes
Elantris2005N/A Tor Books ISBN 9780765350374—
The Final Empire2006Mistborn ISBN 9780765311788Original Mistborn trilogy #1
The Well of Ascension2007 ISBN 9780765316882Original Mistborn trilogy #2
The Hero of Ages2008 ISBN 9780765316899Original Mistborn trilogy #3
Warbreaker2009N/A ISBN 9780765320308—
The Way of Kings2010The Stormlight Archive Tor Books (US), Gollancz (UK) ISBN 9780765326355 Stormlight Archive #1
The Alloy of Law2011Mistborn Tor Books ISBN 9780765330420Wax and Wayne series #1
Words of Radiance2014The Stormlight Archive ISBN 9780765326362Stormlight Archive #2
Shadows of Self2015Mistborn ISBN 9780765378552Wax and Wayne series #2
The Bands of Mourning2016 ISBN 9780765378576Wax and Wayne series #3
Oathbringer2017The Stormlight Archive ISBN 9780765326379Stormlight Archive #3
Rhythm of War2020 ISBN 0765326388Stormlight Archive #4
The Lost Metal2022Mistborn TBDWax and Wayne series #4
Tress of the Emerald Sea 2023 TBD Self-Published TBD Part of Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
The Sunlit Man

Cosmere short works
TitleYearSeries Publisher ISBNNotes
The Hope of Elantris 2006Elantris noneShort story
The Emperor's Soul2012 ISBN 9781616960926Novella
The Eleventh MetalMistborn noneShort story, originally published with Crafty Games' Mistborn RPG
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell2013Threnody ISBN 9780765332066Novella, originally published in Dangerous Women
Sixth of the Dusk2014First of the Sun ISBN 9781938570032Novella, originally published in Shadows Beneath
Allomancer Jak and the Pits of EltaniaMistborn noneShort story, originally published with Crafty Games' Mistborn RPG
Secret History2016 ISBN 9781938570124Novella
Edgedancer2016The Stormlight Archive ISBN 9781250166548
Arcanum Unbounded2016Cosmere ISBN 9780765391162Omnibus edition collecting all of the above
Dawnshard2020The Stormlight Archive ISBN 9781938570261Novella

Cosmere graphic novels
TitleYearSeries Publisher ISBNNotes
White Sand #12016White Sand Dynamite Entertainment ISBN 9781606908853Co-authored with Rik Hoskin, art by Julius Gopez
White Sand #22018 ISBN 9781524103422
White Sand #32019 ISBN 9781524110062 Co-authored with Rik Hoskin, art by Fritz Casas
White Sand Omnibus2022 Omnibus edition collecting all of the above with new prologue. Originally available to fund through Indiegogo campaign, expected June/July 2022. Mass market release expected November 2022[2]

Infinity Blade series

These works are based on the action role-playing iOS video game Infinity Blade, developed by Chair Entertainment and Epic Games.

TitleYear Series Publisher ISBNNotes
Infinity Blade: Awakening2011 Infinity Blade ISBN 9780983943006Novella
Infinity Blade: Redemption2013 ISBN 9780983943020

Legion series
Main article: Legion (novel series)

Legion is a series of three science fiction novellas.

Title Year Series Publisher ISBN
Legion 2012 Legion Subterranean Press ISBN 9781596064850
Legion: Skin Deep 2014 ISBN 9781596066908
Legion: Lies of the Beholder 2018 ISBN 9781596068858

A collection of all three novellas was published by Tor Books in 2018:

Title Year Series Publisher ISBN
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds 2018 Legion Tor Books ISBN 9781250297792

The Wheel of Time series
Main article: The Wheel of Time

Original author Robert Jordan died before completing his multi-volume epic The Wheel of Time. Sanderson was chosen by Harriet McDougal, Jordan's widow and editor, to finish the series according to the notes left behind by her husband.[3] Sanderson's novels in the series are:

Title Year Series Publisher ISBN Notes
The Gathering Storm 2009 The Wheel of Time ISBN 0765302306 Co-authored with Robert Jordan
Towers of Midnight 2010[4][5] ISBN 9780765325945
A Memory of Light 2013 ISBN 9780765325952

Deleted scenes:

  • River of Souls, a deleted scene from A Memory of Light. Published in Unfettered (2013).
  • A Fire Within the Ways, a non-canon deleted scene from A Memory of Light. Published in the fantasy anthology Unfettered III, ed. Shawn Speakman (novella) (2019, Grim Oak Press, ISBN 1944145230).

Standalone Novel
Title Year Series Publisher ISBN Notes
The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook For Surviving Medieval England 2023 Standalone Self-Published TBD Part of Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson

Standalone short works

This includes standalone short stories, novelettes, and novellas.

Title Year Publisher ISBN Notes
Centrifugal 1994 Dragonsteel Entertainment[6] Short story
Firstborn 2008 Tor.com[7] ISBN 9781429952989
Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine 2012 Baen[8] ISBN 9781451638172 Novelette, co-authored with Ethan Skarstedt and published in Armored[9]
I Hate Dragons 2013 Dragonsteel Entertainment[10][11] Short story
I Hate Dragons Extended Version
Dreamer 2014 Ace ISBN 9780425256879 Short story, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner[12]
Perfect State 2015 Dragonsteel Entertainment ISBN 9781938570094 Novella[13][14]
Snapshot 2017 ISBN 9781938570155
Magic: Children of the Nameless 2018 Wizards of the Coast[15]

Audio-exclusive works
Title Year Publisher ISBN Notes
The Original 2020 Recorded Books N/A Co-written with Mary Robinette Kowal and narrated by Julia Whelan[16]

Alcatraz series
Title Year Series Publisher ISBN Notes
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians 2007 Alcatraz Versus ISBN 9780439925501
Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones 2008 ISBN 9780439925532
Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia 2009 ISBN 9780439925556
Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens 2010 ISBN 9780439925570
Alcatraz Versus the Dark Talent 2016 ISBN 9780765381408
Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians 2022 Expected September 2022[17]

Cytoverse

In a blogpost on his website, Sanderson revealed Skyward is the continuity of something he has written before, but more was not officially stated.[18] In a Q&A at a book signing for Skyward, he said it is in the same universe as Defending Elysium.[19]

Title Release Date Publisher ISBN Notes
Defending Elysium October 2008 Dell Magazines ISBN 9781938570001 Short story[20]
Skyward November 2018 Delacorte Press ISBN 9780399555770[18]
Starsight November 2019 ISBN 9780399555817[21]
Sunreach September 2021 ISBN 9780593566619 Co-written by Janci Patterson. Short novel at about 50k words.
ReDawn October 2021 ISBN 9780593566626 Co-written by Janci Patterson. Short novel at about 60k words.
Cytonic November 2021 ISBN 9780593433874
Evershore December 2021 ISBN 9780593566633[22] Co-written by Janci Patterson. Short novel at about 60k words.
Skyward Flight: The Collection April 2022 ISBN 9780593567852 Collection of Sunreach, Redawn, and Evershore. Co-written by Janci Patterson.
Defiant 2023 - Working title

Dark One series

Dark One is a cross-media series, with a three-volume graphic novel planned, a TV series and an audio original series.

Title Year Publisher ISBN Notes
Dark One volume 1 2021 Vault Comics ISBN 9781939424457 Graphic novel[23]

The Reckoners series
Main article: The Reckoners
Title Year Series Publisher ISBN
Steelheart 2013 The Reckoners Delacorte Press ISBN 9780375991219[24]
Mitosis 2013 ISBN 9780449818435
Firefight 2015 ISBN 9780375991226[25][26]
Calamity 2016 ISBN 9780385743600[25][27]
Lux 2021 Audible N/A – audio exclusive, co-written with Steven Michael Bohls and narrated by MacLeod Andrews

Rithmatist series
Main article: Rithmatist series
Title Year Publisher ISBN
The Rithmatist 2013 Tor Book ISBN 9780765320322[28][29]

Unscheduled and announced works

Cosmere series
SeriesNotes
Aether of NightAn abandoned Cosmere novel. Elements were incorporated into the Mistborn series, and Sanderson has also suggested that a character may be recycled for the potential Warbreaker sequel, Nightblood.[30] The last completed draft of Aether of Night can be requested as an Office Open XML file from the official Sanderson fan forum 17th Shard.[31]
DragonsteelThis story (of the shattering of Adonalsium, as told by Hoid) is next-to-last in Sanderson's sequence of Cosmere novels (though it is first chronologically). It will probably be released once Stormlight volume 10 is done.[32]
ElantrisTwo as-yet untitled sequels (forthcoming).[25][33]
MistbornA fourth book in the Wax and Wayne series, entitled The Lost Metal, is planned for publication Christmas 2022, concluding "Era 2" of Mistborn.[34] Sanderson is also currently planning "Era 3", to be written between Stormlight books 5 and 6 in the mid 2020s.[35]
Silence DivineStandalone novella (working title, forthcoming) set in the Shardworld Ashyn, in the Greater Rosharan star system.[25]
SilverlightThere is a planned novella, but no details have yet been released.[32]
The Stormlight ArchiveThis series is planned to run to ten novels. The fifth book is tentatively planned for release December 2023, with the sixth to follow after the completion of the third era of Mistborn novels in the late 2020s.[34]
An early draft of The Way of Kings, dated to 2002 and titled The Way of Kings Prime, is available in ebook form.[36] A limited hardcover was printed as a reward to contributors to a Kickstarter campaign.[37] An audiobook edition is also expected.[38]
ThrenodyAt least one novel is planned, though no specific details have been announced.[32]
WarbreakerNightblood (forthcoming).[25]
White SandThe unpublished prose novel from which the White Sand graphic novel is adapted. Download links to an Office Open XML file appear in Sanderson's official newsletters.[39]

Others
SeriesNotes
AdamantA mooted "epic science fiction space opera" series released every other month as serial novellas. Sanderson plans to write four of the six and have co-authors for the other two. No release dates have been announced.[32]
AlcatrazBastille vs. the Evil Librarians: The Worldspire (forthcoming)[32]
The Apocalypse GuardTrilogy "set in a world parallel to that of The Reckoners", announced on March 1, 2016.[40] The outlining for the series was nearing completion at the end of December 2016.[32] The project was put on hold in November 2017.[41] On February 20, 2018, Dan Wells tweeted that he would be co-writing the series with Sanderson.[42]
Dark OneYoung Adult series about a boy who learns he is destined to destroy the world. The series was announced in December 2014, but no information on number of volumes or release dates were included.[25] The Dark One series was originally set in the Cosmere but it got "pulled out".[43] In 2018 it was announced that Sanderson partnered with FremantleMedia and Random House Studio to produce Dark One as a television series, along with a series of novels, a prequel podcast and graphic novel that will be published by Vault Comics.[44]
RithmatistThe Aztlanian (forthcoming, TBD)[25]
SkywardDefiant, the fourth and final book will release in early 2023.[45]
Songs of the DeadStandalone short work, in revision as of December 2018, release date TBD.[35] Co-written with Peter Orullian. Was previously known under the working titles Death By Pizza and Death Without Pizza.[46]

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