# Brandon Sanderson bibliography

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

## Cosmere

Many of Sanderson's works are set on different planets in an overarching universe known as the Cosmere. They are often subtly connected, with some characters appearing across the various series.

### Novels
#### Standalone

| Title | Year | First edition publisher | Notes | Ref. |
| Elantris | 2005 | Tor Books | | |
| Warbreaker | 2009 | Tor Books | | |

#### Mistborn

| Title | Year | First edition publisher |
| First Era ||||
| The Final Empire | 2006 | Tor Books |
| The Well of Ascension | 2007 | Tor Books |
| The Hero of Ages | 2008 | Tor Books |
| Second Era ||||
| The Alloy of Law | 2011 | Tor Books |
| Shadows of Self | 2015 | Tor Books |
| The Bands of Mourning | 2016 | Tor Books |
| The Lost Metal | 2022 | Tor Books |

#### The Stormlight Archive

| Title | Year | First edition publisher |
| First Arc ||||
| The Way of Kings | 2010 | Tor Books |
| Words of Radiance | 2014 | Tor Books |
| Oathbringer | 2017 | Tor Books |
| Rhythm of War | 2020 | Tor Books |
| Wind and Truth | 2024 | Tor Books |

#### Secret Projects

| Title | Year | First edition publisher | Notes |
| Tress of the Emerald Sea | 2023 | Dragonsteel Entertainment | Secret Project 1 |
| Yumi and the Nightmare Painter | 2023 | Dragonsteel Entertainment | Secret Project 3 |
| The Sunlit Man | 2023 | Dragonsteel Entertainment | Secret Project 4 |
| Isles of the Emberdark | 2025 | Dragonsteel Entertainment | Secret Project 5 |

### Short works

| Title | Year | Series or setting | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes |
| "The Hope of Elantris" | 2006 | Elantris | Short story | Self-published | Collected in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection (2016). |
| "The Eleventh Metal" | 2011 | Mistborn | Short story | Crafty Games | Published with the Mistborn Adventure Game. Collected in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection (2016). |
| The Emperor's Soul | 2012 | Elantris | Novella | Tachyon Publications | Collected in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection (2016). |
| Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell | 2013 | Threnody | Novella | Dangerous Women, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Tor Books | Printed as a standalone in 2015. Collected in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection (2016). |
| Sixth of the Dusk | 2014 | First of the Sun | Novella | Shadows Beneath. Ebook, Dragonsteel Entertainment | Collected in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection (2016). |
| "Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania" | 2014 | Mistborn | Short story | Crafty Games | Part of the second "Mistborn" series. Published with the Mistborn Adventure Game. Collected in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection (2016). |
| Secret History | 2016 | Mistborn | Novella | Ebook, Dragonsteel Entertainment | Collected in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection (2016). |
| Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection | 2016 | N/A | Collection | Tor Books | |
| Edgedancer | 2016 | The Stormlight Archive | Novella | Tor Books | First part appeared as Interlude I9 “Lift” in Words of Radiance (2014). Remainder appeared in Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection (2016). Collected as a standalone in 2017. |
| Dawnshard | 2020 | The Stormlight Archive | Novella | Ebook, Dragonsteel Entertainment | Published on February 15, 2022. |

### Graphic novels

| Title | Year | Series or setting | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes |
| White Sand I | 2016 | Taldain | Graphic novel | Dynamite Entertainment | Written with Rik Hoskin. Illustrated by Julius Gopez and colored by Ross Campbell. |
| White Sand II | 2018 | Taldain | Graphic novel | Dynamite Entertainment | Written with Rik Hoskin. Illustrated by Julius Gopez. |
| White Sand III | 2019 | Taldain | Graphic novel | Dynamite Entertainment | Written with Rik Hoskin. Illustrated by Fritz Casas. |
| White Sand Omnibus | 2022 | Taldain | Collection | Dynamite Entertainment | Includes new prologue and glossary (Ars Arcanum). |

## Alcatraz

Humorous fantasy adventure series for children.
| Title | Year | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes |
| Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians | 2007 | Novel | Scholastic Press | |
| Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones | 2008 | Novel | Scholastic Press | |
| Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia | 2009 | Novel | Scholastic Press | |
| Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens | 2010 | Novel | Scholastic Press | |
| Alcatraz Versus the Dark Talent | 2016 | Novel | Starscape | |
| Bastille Versus the Evil Librarians | 2022 | Novel | Starscape | Written with Janci Patterson. |

## Cytoverse

| Title | Year | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes |
| "Defending Elysium" | 2008 | Short story | Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2008 issue. Dell Magazines | Printed by Ace Books in 2013. |
| Skyward | 2018 | Novel | Delacorte Press | |
| Starsight | 2019 | Novel | Delacorte Press | |
| Sunreach | 2021 | Novella | Ebook, Delacorte Press | Written with Janci Patterson. Reprinted in Skyward Flight: The Collection (2022). |
| ReDawn | 2021 | Novella | Ebook, Delacorte Press | Written with Janci Patterson. Reprinted in Skyward Flight: The Collection (2022). |
| Cytonic | 2021 | Novel | Delacorte Press | |
| Evershore | 2021 | Novella | Ebook, Delacorte Press | Written with Janci Patterson. Reprinted in Skyward Flight: The Collection (2022). |
| Skyward Flight: The Collection | 2022 | Collection | Delacorte Press | Written with Janci Patterson. |
| "Hyperthief" | 2023 | Short story | Dragonsteel Entertainment | Written with Janci Patterson. |
| Defiant | 2023 | Novel | Delacorte Press | |

## The Wheel of Time

Sanderson was selected to continue Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time, after Jordan's death, by his editor and widow Harriet McDougal.
| Title | Year | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes |
| The Gathering Storm | 2009 | Novel | Tor Books | Co-authored by Robert Jordan. |
| Towers of Midnight | 2010 | Novel | Tor Books | Co-authored by Robert Jordan. |
| A Memory of Light | 2013 | Novel | Tor Books | Co-authored by Robert Jordan. |
| "River of Souls" | 2013 | Short story | Unfettered, edited by Shawn Speakman. Grim Oak Press | |
| "A Fire Within the Ways" | 2019 | Short story | Unfettered III, edited by Shawn Speakman. Grim Oak Press | |

## Legion

The Legion novellas are science fiction and center around Stephen Leeds as he investigates different mystery cases.
| Title | Year | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes |
| Legion | 2012 | Novella | Subterranean Press | Reprinted in Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (2018). |
| Legion: Skin Deep | 2014 | Novella | Subterranean Press | Reprinted in Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (2018). |
| Lies of the Beholder | 2018 | Novella | Subterranean Press | First published in Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (2018). |
| Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds | 2018 | Collection | Tor Books | |
| Stephen Leeds: Death and Faxes | 2022 | Audiobook | Recorded Books | Coauthored with Max Epstein, David Pace and Michael Harkins. The story takes place after "Skin Deep" and before "Lies of the Beholder". |

## The Reckoners

Young adult superhero adventure series.
| Title | Year | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes |
| Steelheart | 2013 | Novel | Delacorte Press | |
| "Mitosis" | 2013 | Short story | Delacorte Press | |
| Firefight | 2015 | Novel | Delacorte Press | |
| Calamity | 2016 | Novel | Delacorte Press | |
| Lux | 2021 | Audiobook | Audible Studios | Written with Steven Michael Bohls. Narrated by MacLeod Andrews. |

## Other works

| Title | Year | Series | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes |
| "Firstborn" | 2008 | N/A | Short story | Tor Books | A Tor.com original. Published as an ebook in 2010. Printed by Ace Books in 2013. |
| "I Hate Dragons" | 2011 | N/A | Short story | Self-published on Sanderson's website | Printed in the anthology Dragon Writers (2016), edited by Lisa Mangum. |
| Infinity Blade: Awakening | 2011 | Infinity Blade | Novella | Ebook, Chair Entertainment | Based on the action RPG video game Infinity Blade. |
| Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine | 2012 | N/A | Novelette | Armored, edited by John Joseph Adams. Wake Forest, Baen Books | Written with Ethan Skarstedt. |
| The Rithmatist | 2013 | Rithmatist | Novel | Tor Teen | |
| Infinity Blade: Redemption | 2013 | Infinity Blade | Novella | Ebook, Chair Entertainment | Based on the action RPG video game Infinity Blade. |
| "Dreamer" | 2014 | N/A | Short story | Games Creatures Play, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner. Ace Books | |
| Perfect State | 2015 | N/A | Novella | Ebook, Dragonsteel Entertainment | |
| Snapshot | 2017 | N/A | Novella | Dragonsteel Entertainment | |
| Magic: Children of the Nameless | 2018 | Magic: The Gathering | Novella | Wizards of the Coast | |
| The Original | 2020 | N/A | Audiobook | Recorded Books | Written with Mary Robinette Kowal. Narrated by Julia Whelan. |
| The Way of Kings Prime | 2020 | Sanderson Curiosities | Novel | Dragonsteel Entertainment | A first draft of the novel published on Sanderson's website. |
| Dark One | 2021 | Dark One | Graphic novel | Vault Comics | Written with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly. Illustrated by Nathan C. Gooden and colored by Kurt Michael Russell. |
| Dark One: Forgotten | 2023 | Dark One | Audiobook | Audible Studios | Audio-exclusive. Written with Dan Wells. |
| "Long Chills and Case Dough" | 2023 | Sanderson Curiosities | Short story | Dragonsteel Entertainment | Published on Sanderson's website. |
| The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England | 2023 | N/A | Novel | Dragonsteel Entertainment | Secret Project 2 |
| The Most Boring Book Ever | 2024 | N/A | Picture Book | Roaring Brook Press | Pictures by Kazu Kibuishi |
| "Dragonsteel Prime" | 2024 | Sanderson Curiosities | Novel | Dragonsteel Entertainment | Written as Sanderson's honors thesis at BYU, and published online. An audiobook version read by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading is also available. |
| Tailored Realities | 2025 | Miscellaneous | Short Story Collection | Tor Books | Contains short stories set in the Cosmere Universe and Cytoverse, among others. |