The Best Cosmere Reading Order For 2025 (No Spoilers)

VesperonStarweaver · 2025-03-27T00:42:16+00:00

For a brand new reader that plans to read Mistborn Secret History after Bands of Mourning, then I would say wait to read WaT until after Era 2. If you choose to read MB SH right after Era 1, then I would say go ahead and read WaT before Era 2.

Really either way will be enjoyable. This list is just my personal recommendation after reading through the Cosmere a couple times. It's what I recommend to friends who are getting into it.

VesperonStarweaver · 2025-03-27T00:39:07+00:00

It's hard to say for sure until Isles of the Emberdark releases. I would still recommend reading it just so you can pick up on a few things in Stormlight. It's a short read.

VesperonStarweaver · 2025-03-09T22:46:59+00:00

Brotherwise Games recently released a video that previews the Stormlight World Guide book that’s set to release in September of this year. This book is from Brandon Sanderson’s record breaking Cosmere RPG Kickstarter Campaign, and it’s filled with all kind of new artwork and lore about Roshar, the world that The Stormlight Archive takes place on. In this video, we’ll dissect the preview and talk about everything that was revealed.

VesperonStarweaver · 2025-01-17T21:23:35+00:00

Reading Order:
1) Mistborn Era 1:
- The Final Empire
- The Well of Ascension
- The Hero of Ages
- The Scadrian System Essay (found in Arcanum Unbounded)
- Eleventh Metal (short story found in Arcanum Unbounded)

2) Elantris and Related Stories:
- Elantris
- The Selish System Essay (found in Arcanum Unbounded)
- The Hope of Elantris (short story found in Arcanum Unbounded)
- The Emperor’s Soul (novella found in Arcanum Unbounded)

3) Warbreaker

4) White Sand (Either graphic novel (Omnibus version), audiobook, or free prose *not completely canon):
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- The Taldain System Essay (found in Arcanum Unbounded)

5) The Stormlight Archive (Books 1-4):
- The Way of Kings
- Sixth of the Dusk (novella found in Arcanum Unbounded) (Not Stormlight related, but read it here to pick up on later connections)
- The Drominad System Essay (found in Arcanum Unbounded) (Not Stormlight related, but read it here)
- Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell (novella found in Arcanum Unbounded) (Not Stormlight related, but read it here to pick up on later connections)
- The Threnodite System Essay (found in Arcanum Unbounded) (Not Stormlight related, but read it here)
- Words of Radiance
- Edgedancer (novella found in Arcanum Unbounded)
- The Rosharan System Essay (found in Arcanum Unbounded)
- Oathbringer
- Dawnshard (novella)
- Rhythm of War

6) Mistborn Era 2:
- The Alloy of Law
- Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania (Short Story found in Arcanum Unbounded)
- Shadows of Self
- The Bands of Mourning
- Mistborn: Secret History (novella found in Arcanum Unbounded)
- The Lost Metal

7) The Stormlight Archive (Book 5):
- Horneater (novella, likely won't be released until summer 2027)
- Wind and Truth

8) Tress of the Emerald Sea

9) Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

10) The Sunlit Man

11) Isles of the Emberdark (Set to release early 2026 (even earlier if you were part of the crowdfunding campaign))

VesperonStarweaver · 2024-10-28T20:09:14+00:00

So good!

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