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 that 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; occasional works in progress are marked 'WiP'.

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. While not focused on erotica, most works will not be suitable for under-12s. 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

Contents

591 recommendations in 116 fandoms, plus 62 recommended links (04/02/2012)

Actor fiction (2)
Agatha Christie (1)
Alice in Wonderland (2)
Alien films (1)
Amélie (1)
American Gods (4)
American Psycho (1)
Angel (26)
Arthurian legends (5)
AS Byatt (3)
Batman films (4)
Bible (3)
Blackadder (1)
Blade Runner (2)
Blake's 7 (26)
Breakfast Club (1)
Brokeback Mountain (1)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (26)
Cadfael (1)
Calvin & Hobbes (1)
Charles Dickens (1)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (3)
Chaucer (1)
Chronicles of Narnia (5)
Classical mythology (3)
Coupling (1)
Dark is Rising (6)
DC comics (1)
Diana Wynne Jones (4)
Discworld (4)
Disney cartoons (1)
Doctor Who (17)
Dogma (1)
Dorothy L Sayers (5)
Dracula (2)
Earthsea (16)
EM Forster (4)
Fairy tales (11)
Finnish mythology (1)
Firefly (2)
Frances Hodgson Burnett (3)
Galaxy Quest (1)
Georgette Heyer (4)
Goblin Market (2)
Good Omens (16)
Gormenghast (1)
Gosford Park (2)
Hainish Cycle (2)
Handmaid's Tale (3)
Harry Potter (49)
Historical RPF (2)
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (3)
Hot Fuzz (1)
House, MD (6)
I, Claudius (1)
Indiana Jones (1)
Isaac Asimov (4)
Jane Austen (5)
Jane Eyre (1)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1)
Jungle Book (1)
Juno (1)
Labyrinth (6)
Lemony Snicket (1)
Like Water For Chocolate (1)
Little House on the Prairie (1)
Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit (65)
Lost in Translation (1)
Love Actually (1)
M*A*S*H (1)
Mary Russell series (1)
Neuromancer (1)
Neverwhere (4)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1)
Norse mythology (6)
Peter Pan (1)
PG Wodehouse (4)
Pirates of the Caribbean (17)
Princess Bride (1)
Raymond Chandler (4)
Rebecca (1)
Red Dwarf (1)
Remington Steele (4)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1)
Sex and the City (1)
Shakespeare (11)
Sherlock (BBC) (4)
Sherlock Holmes (6)
Sleepy Hollow (1)
Smallville (8)
Spirited Away (3)
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (32)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (13)
Star Trek: TOS/XI (9)
Star Trek: Voyager (1)
Study in Emerald (1)
The Good Life (1)
The Name of the Rose (1)
The Silmarillion (43)
Tipping the Velvet (1)
Twin Peaks (3)
Vorkosigan series (7)
Watership Down (5)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1)
Winnie the Pooh (1)
Wire in the Blood (1)
Yes, Minister (1)

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