Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death.

Currently consisting of five titles, the Reckoners is a young adult, superhero series set in a post-apocalyptic United States. The main series is a trilogy that includes Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity; an additional short story, “Mitosis,” is set chronologically between the events of the first two books. More recently, Sanderson published Lux, an audio-exclusive story that takes place during the events of Calamity and follows a ragtag group of Reckoners in Texas. The original Reckoners books begin 13 years after the rise of the sphere known as Calamity—the original Epic who gifts humans with powers and is the cause of the dark corruption that arises from their use. Protagonist David Charleston is a non-Epic human whose father was killed by Steelheart. At the beginning of the main series, David has vowed revenge for this injustice, and his quest brings him in contact with the Reckoners. As the series progresses, David learns that the Epics are not evil; instead, they have unwittingly been corrupted by the powers from Calamity.