If the Ogier’s stedding, the White Tower’s politics, and the ancient rot of Shadar Logoth hooked you with their depth, you’ll love how The Way of Kings unveils Roshar’s spren, Shattered Plains warcamps, and long-buried Knights Radiant lore piece by piece. Like meeting Loial in Caemlyn and realizing the world is far bigger than Emond’s Field, Sanderson steadily expands mysteries—oaths, Orders, and storm-born powers—into a living, breathing tapestry you can get lost in.

If being driven from Emond’s Field by Trollocs, crossing through Baerlon and the ruin-haunted Shadar Logoth, and racing ahead of Ba’alzamon’s shadow thrilled you, The Fellowship of the Ring delivers that same grand quest energy. As Moiraine and Lan guide the villagers, Gandalf and Strider shepherd the hobbits through peril—weather, wraiths, and wonders—across Middle-earth, capturing the exhilaration of a road-quest where every mile deepens the stakes.

If Rand’s wrenching departure from Emond’s Field, his unsettling dreams of Ba’alzamon, and his uneasy first brushes with the One Power drew you in, Assassin’s Apprentice offers a similarly intimate transformation. Fitz is pulled from anonymity into Buckkeep’s intrigue, trained in secret like Rand learning from Moiraine’s hints, and struggles with dangerous talents—the Skill and the Wit—much as Rand wrestles with power he neither wants nor fully understands.

If the dual nature of saidin and saidar, the concept of weaving, and Moiraine’s precise limitations fascinated you—not to mention the Eye itself—then Mistborn: The Final Empire will scratch the same itch. Allomancy’s metal-based rules (pushing and pulling on metals, defined powers by specific ingested alloys) drive every fight and scheme, much like how the One Power dictates tactics from Shadar Logoth’s escape to the showdown with the Green Man.

If you enjoyed seeing the world through Rand, Egwene, Perrin, Nynaeve, Moiraine, and even Thom—each angle changing how Caemlyn’s court, the White Tower, or the shadowspawn threat feels—A Game of Thrones amplifies that mosaic. Switching among the Starks, Lannisters, and Daenerys gives the same layered effect you got when Rand meets Elayne in the palace while others face danger elsewhere, letting the larger conflict sharpen with every perspective.