Espresso Recommendations

My rationale in selecting stories for this recommendations archive is to showcase some of the very best fanfiction in those fandoms that I read. I strive to select works which are particularly innovative or stylish: present or future fandom classics. Clearly, these are just personal opinions, but I hope you will share them! I particularly enjoy plausible alternate universes & crossovers, well-crafted original & minor characters, future fics and pastiche, so these sub-genres are probably over-represented here. Almost all stories recommended here are complete.

I prefer not to present a summary or detailed critique when describing stories, providing only a teaser to whet the readers' appetite for the story itself. For this reason, I rarely state pairings. For convenience, stories are indexed by title, author, character, date added, length & genre. For further reading, check out the archives, recommendations & awards sites and author sites in the links section.

I only recommend freely accessible material; unfortunately there is no guarantee that works will not subsequently be removed from public access.

This site is designed for adults. Some works which struck me as being particularly graphic (whether explicit erotica or extreme violence) are denoted 'Adult', but nervous or underage readers should proceed with care and always check the author's rating.

Feedback & suggestions are welcomed. Updates to this site will be announced in Espresso Diary.


The Espresso Addict
the_espresso_addict@fireflyuk.net

Contents

475 recommendations in 81 fandoms, plus 67 recommended links (03/09/2009)

Agatha Christie (1)
Alice in Wonderland (2)
American Gods (2)
Angel (25)
Arthurian legends (3)
AS Byatt (3)
Batman Begins (3)
Bible (2)
Blackadder (1)
Blade Runner (1)
Blake's 7 (26)
Brokeback Mountain (1)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (26)
Cadfael (1)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1)
Charlotte Bronte (1)
Chaucer (1)
Chronicles of Narnia (5)
Classical mythology (2)
Coupling (1)
Dark is Rising (5)
Diana Wynne Jones (3)
Discworld (2)
Doctor Who (16)
Dogma (1)
Dorothy L Sayers (5)
Dracula (1)
Earthsea (12)
EM Forster (2)
Fairy tales (9)
Firefly (2)
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1)
Galaxy Quest (1)
Georgette Heyer (4)
Good Omens (16)
Gosford Park (1)
Harry Potter (41)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (3)
House, MD (6)
I, Claudius (1)
Indiana Jones (1)
Isaac Asimov (4)
Jane Austen (4)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1)
Labyrinth (3)
Lemony Snicket (1)
Little House on the Prairie (1)
Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit (64)
Lost in Translation (1)
Neverwhere (2)
Norse myths (4)
PG Wodehouse (4)
Pirates of the Caribbean (16)
Real person fiction (2)
Rebecca (1)
Remington Steele (5)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1)
Sex and the City (1)
Shakespeare (2)
Sherlock Holmes (6)
Sleepy Hollow (1)
Smallville (8)
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (30)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (6)
Star Trek: The Original Series (1)
Star Trek: XI (4)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (1)
The Good Life (1)
The Name of the Rose (1)
The Princess Bride (1)
The Silmarillion (43)
Tipping the Velvet (1)
Twin Peaks (2)
Vorkosigan series (2)
Watership Down (3)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1)
William Gibson (1)
Winnie the Pooh (1)
Wire in the Blood (1)
Yes, Minister (1)

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