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What is the best Brandon Sanderson fantasy series?

By YPB Team

From storm-swept epics and ingenious magic systems to superhero thrillers and spacefaring adventures, one author's worlds span every shelf. Towering doorstoppers meet breezy page-turners. Which is his best? Where do you stand?

  1. The Stormlight Archive — ranked #11
    The Stormlight Archive
    Sanderson's flagship epic of knights, storms, and shattered oaths on the world of Roshar.
    1000pts
  2. Mistborn: The Original Trilogy — ranked #22
    Mistborn: The Original Trilogy
    The genre-defining trilogy built on allomancy magic and a heist against an immortal god-emperor.
    897pts
  3. White Sand — ranked #33
    White Sand
    A Cosmere graphic-novel series set on a harsh world where sand can be magically controlled.
    440pts
  4. Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series — ranked #44
    Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series
    The frontier-and-flintlock second Mistborn era following lawman Waxillium Ladrian.
    323pts
  5. Skyward — ranked #55
    Skyward
    A YA science-fiction series following a young pilot fighting to defend humanity among the stars.
    323pts
  6. Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians — ranked #66
    Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
    A comedic middle-grade series pitting a boy with strange talents against a secret society of librarians.
    0pts
  7. The Reckoners — ranked #77
    The Reckoners
    A bestselling YA trilogy in which ordinary people fight back against superpowered tyrants.
    0pts
  8. The Rithmatist — ranked #88
    The Rithmatist
    A 2013 young-adult fantasy set at an academy where Rithmatists animate chalk drawings to fight wild chalklings, the opening book of a long-awaited series.
  9. Dark One — ranked #99
    Dark One
    A graphic-novel fantasy series in which a teenage boy learns he is prophesied to become the dark lord of another world, followed by the audio sequel Forgotten.
  10. Infinity Blade — ranked #1010
    Infinity Blade
    Sanderson's two fantasy novellas, Awakening and Redemption, written as tie-ins to Chair Entertainment's Infinity Blade games about Siris and the deathless God King.

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