I read A Man Called Ove. That was good. You might check out The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. It's similar in some ways. I learned about it on Goodreads -- I'm not a member, but I do google searches for good books about X or Y, and Goodreads usually pops up.
I've tried lots of different types of fiction lately -- serious Literature, science fiction, fantasy, middle-brow novels, even a western. I really liked Ken Folette's Pillars of the Earth and Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove. Both were excellent, but also 900 pages or so.
In the fantasy realm, I have enjoyed some of Terry Brooks' novels, although they get pretty formulaic after a while. I tried a bunch of other fantasy authors but haven't found one I really jived with. I had a similar reaction as you to Brandon Sanderson -- just didn't resonate with me. I think it was too "thieves' guild" and intrigue-based for me, too much talk about his magic system. The main character was interesting but the others weren't, and I didn't find that I cared about the world much. Like a lot of fantasy and sf (and detective/crime fiction), there was too much focus on action/plot and not enough talk about the characters and what was going on with them -- at least for me.
One of the things I learned lately is that I really need good characters in a book, characters I find interesting or relatable or likeable or funny. If it doesn't have that -- no matter how exciting the action is, how twisty the plot is -- I usually just lose interest. So based on that, I've been trying to find good character-driven novels lately.
The first one I found like that was Richard Russo's Nobody's Fool, which I'm just finishing up. It was really great for the first three-quarters -- lots of interesting characters and funny dialog from a cranky old guy -- but then it started to drag a bit, because it felt like it was too much bumping around the same small town, without a whole lot going on except little stuff. I've enjoyed it enough to try another of his, though.