While Mistborn is an excellent choice, I sometimes start people on some of his YA (as a lower commitment):

- Rithmatist is my favorite, but is only one book. - Steelheart is a very fun fresh take on super powers. - Skyward is like Dragon's Blood meets Space Invaders - it's great. The third book should be finished this year.

Finally, he does have one middlegrade series which most people seem to overlook: Alcatraz vs The Evil Librarians. It is just awesome, especially for anyone who loves trope busting.

Mistborn is definitely the best place to start. It is a fantastic trilogy that wraps up so perfectly, which is rare in the world of popular fantasy. Stormlight Archive is amazing, but it might be worth waiting for the 5th book to release (maybe 3ish years from now), which appears to be a sort of stopping point before the next five books.

Way of kings is epic in scope. Try Mistborn — it’s faster pace, lower commitment, and showcases Sanderson style and magic system building nicely. Just an aside if you have kids he has a lot of great young adult novels as well. He is simply prolific and enjoyable. I worked through most of one of his writing classes he teaches and it changed how I view fnantsy fiction.

Strongly recommend either The Way of Kings or Mistborn. They're the first books in two separate series of his. The Way of Kings is epic fantasy. Mistborn is somewhere between fantasy and YA.