This is the bibliography of American fantasy and science fiction writer Brandon Sanderson.
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.[1]
Title | Year | Series or setting | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes | Ref. |
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White Sand I | 2016 | White Sand | Graphic novel | Dynamite Entertainment | Written with Rik Hoskin. Illustrated by Julius Gopez and colored by Ross Campbell. | [22] |
White Sand II | 2018 | White Sand | Graphic novel | Dynamite Entertainment | Written with Rik Hoskin. Illustrated by Julius Gopez. | [23] |
White Sand III | 2019 | White Sand | Graphic novel | Dynamite Entertainment | Written with Rik Hoskin. Illustrated by Fritz Casas. | [24] |
White Sand Omnibus | 2022 | White Sand | Collection | Dynamite Entertainment | Includes new prologue and glossary (Ars Arcanum). | [25] |
Humorous fantasy adventure series for children.
Title | Year | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes | Ref. |
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Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians | 2007 | Novel | Scholastic Press | [2] | |
Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones | 2008 | Novel | Scholastic Press | [2] | |
Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia | 2009 | Novel | Scholastic Press | [2] | |
Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens | 2010 | Novel | Scholastic Press | [2] | |
Alcatraz Versus the Dark Talent | 2016 | Novel | Starscape | [26] | |
Bastille Versus the Evil Librarians | 2022 | Novel | Starscape | Written with Janci Patterson. | [27] |
Young adult science fiction series.
Title | Year | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes | Ref. |
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"Defending Elysium" | 2008 | Short story | Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2008 issue. Dell Magazines | Printed by Ace Books in 2013. | [28][29] |
Skyward | 2018 | Novel | Delacorte Press | [30] | |
Starsight | 2019 | Novel | Delacorte Press | [31] | |
Sunreach | 2021 | Novella | Ebook, Delacorte Press | Written with Janci Patterson. Reprinted in Skyward Flight: The Collection (2022). | [27] |
ReDawn | 2021 | Novella | Ebook, Delacorte Press | Written with Janci Patterson. Reprinted in Skyward Flight: The Collection (2022). | [27] |
Cytonic | 2021 | Novel | Delacorte Press | [32] | |
Evershore | 2021 | Novella | Ebook, Delacorte Press | Written with Janci Patterson. Reprinted in Skyward Flight: The Collection (2022). | [27] |
Skyward Flight: The Collection | 2022 | Collection | Delacorte Press | Written with Janci Patterson. | [27] |
Defiant | 2023 | Novel | Delacorte Press | [33] |
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.[2]
Title | Year | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes | Ref. |
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The Gathering Storm | 2009 | Novel | Tor Books | Co-authored by Robert Jordan. | [2] |
Towers of Midnight | 2010 | Novel | Tor Books | Co-authored by Robert Jordan. | [2] |
A Memory of Light | 2013 | Novel | Tor Books | Co-authored by Robert Jordan. | [2] |
"River of Souls" | 2013 | Short story | Unfettered, edited by Shawn Speakman. Grim Oak Press | [34] | |
"A Fire Within the Ways" | 2019 | Short story | Unfettered III, edited by Shawn Speakman. Grim Oak Press | [34][35] |
The Legion novellas are science fiction and center around Stephen Leeds as he investigates different mystery cases.[36]
Title | Year | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes | Ref. |
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Legion | 2012 | Novella | Subterranean Press | Reprinted in Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (2018). | [37][36] |
Legion: Skin Deep | 2014 | Novella | Subterranean Press | Reprinted in Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (2018). | [38][36] |
Lies of the Beholder | 2018 | Novella | Subterranean Press | First published in Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (2018). | [36] |
Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds | 2018 | Collection | Tor Books | [36] | |
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". | [39] |
Young adult superhero adventure series.
Title | Year | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes | Ref. |
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Steelheart | 2013 | Novel | Delacorte Press | [2] | |
"Mitosis" | 2013 | Short story | Delacorte Press | [citation needed] | |
Firefight | 2015 | Novel | Delacorte Press | [40] | |
Calamity | 2016 | Novel | Delacorte Press | [41] | |
Lux | 2021 | Audiobook | Audible Studios | Written with Steven Michael Bohls. Narrated by MacLeod Andrews.[citation needed] | [42] |
Title | Year | Series | Format | First edition publisher/publication | Notes | Ref. |
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"Firstborn" | 2008 | N/A | Short story | Tor Books | A Tor.com original. Published as an ebook in 2010.[citation needed] Printed by Ace Books in 2013. | [43][44][29] |
"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.[citation needed] | [45] |
Infinity Blade: Awakening | 2011 | Infinity Blade | Novella | Ebook, Chair Entertainment | Based on the action RPG video game Infinity Blade. | [46] |
Heuristic Algorithm and Reasoning Response Engine | 2012 | N/A | Novelette | Armored, edited by John Joseph Adams. Wake Forest, Baen Books | Written with Ethan Skarstedt. | [47][48] |
The Rithmatist | 2013 | Rithmatist | Novel | Tor Teen | [2] | |
Infinity Blade: Redemption | 2013 | Infinity Blade | Novella | Ebook, Chair Entertainment | Based on the action RPG video game Infinity Blade. | [49] |
"Dreamer" | 2014 | N/A | Short story | Games Creatures Play, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner. Ace Books | [50] | |
Perfect State | 2015 | N/A | Novella | Ebook, Dragonsteel Entertainment | [16] | |
Snapshot | 2017 | N/A | Novella | Dragonsteel Entertainment | [51] | |
Magic: Children of the Nameless | 2018 | Magic: The Gathering | Novella | Wizards of the Coast | [52] | |
The Original | 2020 | N/A | Audiobook | Recorded Books | Written with Mary Robinette Kowal. Narrated by Julia Whelan. | [53] |
The Way of Kings Prime | 2020 | The Stormlight Archive | Novel | Dragonsteel Entertainment | A first draft of the novel published on Sanderson's website. | [54] |
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. | [55] |
The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England | 2023 | N/A | Novel | Dragonsteel Entertainment | Secret Project 2 | [56] |
Dark One: Forgotten | 2023 | Dark One | Audiobook | Audible Studios | Audio-exclusive. Written with Dan Wells. | [57] |
"Long Chills and Case Dough" | 2023 | Sanderson Curiosities | Short story | Dragonsteel Entertainment | Published on Sanderson's website. | [58] |