Where to Start with Brandon Sanderson
- Best entry point → The Way of Kings
- Start The Mistborn Saga series → The Final Empire
- Quick read, big payoff → Dawnshard
- Underrated but highly rated → The Gathering Storm
- What readers keep coming back to → The Well of Ascension
- Highest rated by readers → Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive #2)
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Words of Radiance
The Stormlight Archive • Book 2
★ 4.96 BLT Score (498.0K ratings)★ 4.76 Goodreads (498.0K) - 2
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The Hero of Ages
The Mistborn Saga • Book 3
★ 4.83 BLT Score (606.0K ratings)★ 4.56 Goodreads (606.0K) - 4
Oathbringer
The Stormlight Archive • Book 3
★ 4.83 BLT Score (365.0K ratings)★ 4.6 Goodreads (365.0K) - 5
The Final Empire
The Mistborn Saga • Book 1
★ 4.78 BLT Score (999.3K ratings)★ 4.49 Goodreads (999.3K) - 6
The Gathering Storm
The Wheel of Time • Book 12
by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
★ 4.77 BLT Score (178.7K ratings)★ 4.44 Goodreads (178.7K) - 7
Towers of Midnight
The Wheel of Time • Book 13
by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
★ 4.77 BLT Score (176.1K ratings)★ 4.48 Goodreads (176.1K) - 8
Rhythm of War
The Stormlight Archive • Book 4
★ 4.76 BLT Score (245.5K ratings)★ 4.58 Goodreads (245.5K) - 9
The Well of Ascension
The Mistborn Saga • Book 2
★ 4.70 BLT Score (671.8K ratings)★ 4.38 Goodreads (671.8K) - 10
The Lost Metal
The Mistborn Saga • Book 7
★ 4.70 BLT Score (122.5K ratings)★ 4.48 Goodreads (122.5K) - 11
The Bands of Mourning
Mistborn, Era 2: Wax & Wayne • Book 3
★ 4.66 BLT Score (193.3K ratings)★ 4.4 Goodreads (193.3K) - 12
Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
The Cosmere
★ 4.64 BLT Score (66.7K ratings)★ 4.43 Goodreads (66.7K) - 13
Dawnshard
The Stormlight Archive #3.5 • Book 3
★ 4.61 BLT Score (136.9K ratings)★ 4.34 Goodreads (136.9K) - 14
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Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Hoid's Travails • Book 2
by Brandon Sanderson, Aliya Chen
★ 4.57 BLT Score (118.7K ratings)★ 4.43 Goodreads (118.7K) - 16
The Rithmatist
Rithmatist • Book 1
by Brandon Sanderson, Ben McSweeney
★ 4.56 BLT Score (75.3K ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (75.3K) - 17
Shadows of Self
Mistborn, Era 2: Wax & Wayne • Book 2
★ 4.56 BLT Score (211.7K ratings)★ 4.26 Goodreads (211.7K) - 18
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The Alloy of Law
Mistborn, Era 2: Wax & Wayne • Book 1
★ 4.53 BLT Score (294.2K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (294.2K) - 20
Tress of the Emerald Sea
Hoid's Travails • Book 1
by Brandon Sanderson, Howard Lyon
★ 4.50 BLT Score (297.2K ratings)★ 4.32 Goodreads (297.2K) - 21
Wind and Truth
The Stormlight Archive • Book 5
★ 4.45 BLT Score (139.0K ratings)★ 4.37 Goodreads (139.0K) - 22
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