What to Read After Mistborn
The best next reads for anyone who finished Mistborn and wants equally satisfying world-building and plot payoff. Every book below delivers on what makes Sanderson's trilogy so compulsively readable — elegant magic systems, real stakes, and endings that earn their resolution.
- 1
The Way of Kings
by Brandon Sanderson
The natural next step in Sanderson's Cosmere — bigger in every direction.
- 2
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
Rothfuss builds his magic system with the same obsessive detail Sanderson brings to allomancy.
- 3
An Ember in the Ashes
by Sabaa Tahir
A faster, grittier read with the same underdog-in-a-brutal-world energy as Vin's story.
- 4
Red Rising
by Pierce Brown
Class warfare, revolution, and a protagonist who has to become something harder than they wanted to be — sounds familiar.
- 5
The Blade Itself
by Joe Abercrombie
If you loved how Sanderson interrogates the hero archetype, Abercrombie demolishes it completely.
- 6
Assassin's Apprentice
by Robin Hobb
Slower and more emotional, but the same commitment to a single character's entire arc.