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The Stormlight Archive · Book 1

The Way of Kings

by Brandon Sanderson
Published
31 August 2010
Pages
1008
ISBN-13
9781427209764
Type
novel
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About this book

The Way of Kings is the book that opens Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive, published in August 2010 at 1,008 pages. It's the natural place to begin the series, which continues with Words of Radiance and is planned to run to ten novels across two five-book arcs.

Key facts about The Way of Kings

The Way of Kings is a novel by Brandon Sanderson. Readers have had it since 31 August 2010. It runs to 1008 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of The Way of Kings. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781427209764 to find the main one.

The Way of Kings is book 1 of 7 in The Stormlight Archive series. The series has 7 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. Wind and Truth is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 6 December 2024.

Additionally, Brandon Sanderson writes The Wheel of Time, Elantris and Mistborn, plus 4 more series. Those series sit on our fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Blightfall is the latest published Brandon Sanderson book on file, from 1 September 2026.

About Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson is an American author who has become one of the defining voices in modern epic fantasy, primarily through the interconnected "Cosmere" universe that links most of his major series. See every Brandon Sanderson book in order.

Its place in The Stormlight Archive

The Way of Kings is book 1 in the The Stormlight Archive series. It is followed by Words of Radiance. See the full The Stormlight Archive reading order.

The Stormlight Archive is Brandon Sanderson's flagship epic, set on Roshar — a world scoured by apocalyptic highstorms, where plants retract like anemones, armies war over gemstones that hold the storms' light, and ten legendary orders of Knights Radiant fell into ruin so long ago that their powers have passed into myth. The Way of Kings (2010) braids three lives together: Kaladin, a surgeon's son turned enslaved bridge-runner who refuses to let his men die; Shallan, a scholar whose scholarship is a front for…

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