Brandon Sanderson knows a thing or two about fantasy. If you’ve spent even five minutes in fantasy corners of the internet, you already know the author is everywhere. He has three ongoing series, a Kickstarter that broke crowdfunding records, and a fanbase that treats his release calendar like a religious holiday. What gets talked about less is that Sanderson is also a huge reader, and a surprisingly vocal one at that. He blogs about books that shaped him as a teenager, he interviews other authors on tour, and he keeps an actual recommendation list on his website for anyone who wants to know what he’s into.

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