Brandon Sanderson

Shai is the greatest Forger in the world — able to rewrite the history of objects and grant them new properties. Caught attempting to steal the Moon Scepter, she is given an impossible ultimatum: secretly forge a new soul for the Emperor, who was left brain-dead after an assassination attempt, before the political deadline expires.

The first book in Brandon Sanderson's epic Stormlight Archive series, set on the storm-ravaged world of Roshar and following three protagonists navigating war, politics, and the discovery of ancient magic.

The fifth and culminating volume of the first arc of the Stormlight Archive, bringing Kaladin, Shallan, and Dalinar to their final confrontation with Odium's champion in a battle for the fate of Roshar.

The second volume of The Stormlight Archive follows Shallan and Kaladin as ancient evils stir and the order of Knights Radiant must be reborn to face an apocalyptic threat.

The third Stormlight Archive novel follows Dalinar Kholin's attempt to unite the nations of Roshar as ancient evils return and the secrets of his past are finally revealed.

In a world where ash falls from the sky and the Dark Lord won a thousand years ago, a young thief with extraordinary magical ability joins a crew planning the most audacious heist in history.

As the world begins to end, Vin, Elend, and their companions race to find the Hero of Ages and uncover the true nature of the powers that have shaped their world from the beginning.

Tress has never left her small island. When the boy she loves is kidnapped and taken across the deadly spore seas, she sets out to rescue him — becoming a sailor, a pirate, and eventually a hero on a world she's never seen.

The fourth Stormlight Archive novel follows the war against the Fused as Kaladin confronts depression, Navani discovers the nature of anti-Stormlight, and Eshonai's past is finally told.

Wax and Wayne pursue the legendary Bands of Mourning — a set of metalminds said to grant any user the full power of the Lord Ruler — leading them into uncharted lands and the revelation of a hidden civilization.

The finale of the Wax and Wayne series pits Elendel against an existential threat while the Cosmere's larger machinations come into direct contact with the Scadrian world for the first time.

Yumi is a yoki-hijo on a world of geothermal heat, summoning spirits through elaborate rituals. Painter is an artist on a world of perpetual darkness, holding back nightmare creatures with his brush. When their lives inexplicably intersect, each must learn from the other while solving the mystery of their connection.

Spensa returns from the Nowhere with new understanding of her cytonic abilities as humanity makes its final stand against the Superiority, and the truth about the Delvers and the nature of consciousness itself must be resolved.

A novella set between Words of Radiance and Oathbringer, following Lift — an irreverent teenage Radiant who can metabolize food into Stormlight — as she pursues the dangerous Herald Nale through the city of Yeddaw.

A shape-shifting kandra is orchestrating political unrest in the city of Elendel, and Wax and Wayne must stop an assassin who can wear any face before the city tears itself apart.

Spensa dreams of becoming a pilot in humanity's fight against the alien Krell, but her father's disgrace as a supposed coward has barred her from flight school. When she discovers a crashed, ancient starfighter with an unlikely AI, she finds a path to the sky — and to truths about the war her society would rather keep buried.

Set 300 years after the events of the original Mistborn trilogy, Waxillium Ladrian is a lawman who returns to the city to find himself caught up in a series of mysterious robberies with allomantic involvement.

Nomad is a man who can never stop moving — on a world where the sun kills everything it touches, and the only survival is to keep ahead of the terminator line. When he's drawn into the struggles of the planet's oppressed population, stopping means death, but abandoning them feels like its own kind of dying.

With the Lord Ruler dead, Elend Venture struggles to hold together a fragile new government while Vin faces threats from within and without — and begins to question the prophecy that supposedly guides them.

Rysn Ftori, a disabled Thaylen merchant and newly appointed Wandersail captain, leads an expedition to the lost island of Aimia — and discovers something there that carries implications for the entire Cosmere.

The Reckoners take their fight to Babylon Restored — the flooded ruins of Manhattan — pursuing the Epic known as Regalia while David confronts the possibility that not all Epics are irredeemably corrupt.

Spensa goes undercover among the alien Superiority to discover the truth behind their war against humanity, only to find that the conflict — and her own abilities — are far more complicated than she was told.

Ten years after a cosmic event granted ordinary people superhuman abilities, the Epics have taken over as tyrants rather than heroes. David Charleston joins the Reckoners — ordinary humans who hunt Epics — to kill Steelheart, the most powerful Epic alive.

In an alternate-history United Isles of America, Joel attends Armedius Academy alongside Rithmatists — students who can bring chalk drawings to life as warriors. When Rithmatist students begin disappearing, Joel and his unconventional mentor Professor Fitch must investigate before the killings reach the school itself.

Two sisters from a conservative mountain kingdom are sent to the colorful, decadent city of the Gods, where the divine Returned don't believe in their own religion and a war is being engineered by forces neither fully understands.

The Reckoners track the source of Epic powers to Ildithia — the former Atlanta — and David confronts the cosmic force behind Calamity itself, with the future of both Epics and ordinary humans at stake.

Spensa enters the Nowhere — a dimension outside normal space-time — to master her cytonic abilities and find a way to save humanity from the Superiority, encountering fragments of ancient civilizations and the truth about why cytonics are feared.

In a world where a magical city of gods has fallen and its inhabitants are cursed with a living death, a prince, a princess, and a priest navigate politics, religion, and the mystery of what destroyed Elantris.