I personally would put Era 2 on the back burner for now. It includes much more Cosmere info than Era 1, and you’ll miss out/not understand a lot of it, if you don’t read some others first. My suggestion would be doing Warbreaker or Elantris next. They are both standalone books, it doesn’t matter the order you read them in, but Elantris was Sanderson’s first published book.
From there, I’d do the first 2 Stormlight books followed by Arcanum Unbounded. Arcanum is a collection of short stories, all Cosmere. It includes Edgedancer (Stormlight 2.5) and Mistborn: Secret History. The events in Secret History happen before Era 2, so would be good to read that right before getting into Era 2.
After Arcanum, you can choose to continue with Stormlight, or go back to Mistborn. It’s a fairly good pausing point for the Stormlight series. There’s also the White Sands graphic novels, and 3 standalone books released this year (Secret Projects), that you could sprinkle in between some of the thicker novels.
I personally would put Era 2 on the back burner for now. It includes much more Cosmere info than Era 1, and you’ll miss out/not understand a lot of it, if you don’t read some others first. My suggestion would be doing Warbreaker or Elantris next. They are both standalone books, it doesn’t matter the order you read them in, but Elantris was Sanderson’s first published book.
From there, I’d do the first 2 Stormlight books followed by Arcanum Unbounded. Arcanum is a collection of short stories, all Cosmere. It includes Edgedancer (Stormlight 2.5) and Mistborn: Secret History. The events in Secret History happen before Era 2, so would be good to read that right before getting into Era 2.
After Arcanum, you can choose to continue with Stormlight, or go back to Mistborn. It’s a fairly good pausing point for the Stormlight series. There’s also the White Sands graphic novels, and 3 standalone books released this year (Secret Projects), that you could sprinkle in between some of the thicker novels.
Happy reading!