What You Leave Behind
Midnight Blues by Zeitgeist84
The Castle Where Eternity Dwells by Carnivorous Muffin
Eleanor Potter and The Train Station Called Purgatory
Changeling by Annerb
On The Way To Greatness by Mira Mirth
Forging The Sword by Myst Shadow
Harry Potter: The Last Avatar by The Sorting Cat
Wizard For Hire by Dark-Syaoran
Harry Potter and The Forests Of Valbonë by enembee
The Asking Price by garamonder (Hunger Games)
Contemplating Clouds by Tehan.au
Drink Up, Me Hearties by Tinn Tam
Timely Errors by Worfe
Just A Random Tuesday... by Twisted Biscuit

This ended up being longer than I expected. Uh oops?

 

I like re-reading this one once in a while

Also is it bad my mind went straight to The One He Feared?


EDIT: How could I forget I See The Moon

 

Aside of Canon, that's the Dumbledore I measure all others against. Definitely one of my top 5 favorite one-shots.


As is Number Games - aging quidditch star Ron in all his glory.

HP and the Unlocked Knowledge and Escape to Darkness - goddammit, KMFrank.

The Well Groomed Mind - I know it's not the most popular thing around here, but I love it.

A Long Journey Home - Every time it updates, I re-read the whole thing.

 

Tha Games We Play
Son of Suns Trilogy

 

Hmm...go to fics...some of mine are probably more guilty pleasure than anything...so, in no particular order:

• Jedi Harris series by scribbler -- started out pretty nicely, though later on there were a bit too many crossovers, but nice to read when there's nothing else

• Victory at Ostagar -- a lot of my head canon DAO lore is from here, though I skip most of the fem!Cousland/Loghain romance. Apart from that, I love it.

• Transitional States by Rigil Kent -- the only good NCIS story I found in the whole fandom. It's even somewhat finished on a more or less good note.

• Halk Online -- great world building, great characters and it's very, very long indeed. I love it.

• Monkey Screaming by SGCbearcub -- one of the best Stargate stories out there. Honor's Solution is also great for a kick-ass Carter.

• Prodigal by Domenika Marzione -- a nice SG/NCIS crossover with good writing and good meshing of the universes.

 

A Game of Champions
Forging the Sword
The Son of Suns Trilogy
Empire's Son
Harry Potter: The Last Avatar
In the Light of Silver Memories
What You Leave Behind
Traitor's Son
A Beautiful World (?)
Red
Lords of Magic
Seventh Horcrux
The Alexandra Quick series
Prince of a Dark Kingdom
Equal and Opposite
What Lies Beneath


With AGoC, FtS, and blank101's fics getting that treatment far more often than the rest.

 

I don't usually re-read fics unless they haven't updated in a while and I need to refresh my memory, but I will say that Seventh Horcrux was just as funny the second time as it was the first.

 

The game of champions
Reload
Black comedy
Retsu's folly and other nuhuh fanfics

 

Restricting myself to HP here, just what I've recently re-read:

Ectomancer

The Weapon

Havoc side of the force

Stranger in an unholy land

Unintended Consequences

Contemplating Clouds

The World I Leave Behind

Wand and Shield

Inevitable

Harry Potter: The Last Avatar

Taking Control (as well as its sequels Free Life and The Prevailing Counterpoint)

Imprisoned Realm

Harry Potter and the Dark Lord

The Legacy

Resonance, Revolution, and Resolution

And probably some more that I've forgotten.

 

Empires Son by blank101. Any of his stuff really. His style of having chapters pre-written usually means his plotting is a level above most of the other great fanfics I enjoy

 

Retsu's Folly by nuhuh (All of his stuff really.)
Pureblood Princess by TheEndless7

 

Huh, I didn't know another author had continued Taking Control. The story has fallen out of favor with me, but I'll have to give its sequel a try.

 

I rarely venture beyond the bounds of HP fan fiction.

The big ones that stand out to me are: Black Bond and
A Long Journey Home

 

I like these Harry and Bruce Banner friendship fics;

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9348546/18/Ink-Stains

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8212843/1/I-See-The-Moon
(^ I guarantee this one will make you laugh)

 

It's got to be Jamie Evans and Fate's Fool (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8175132/1/Jamie-Evans-and-Fate-s-Fool). Really funny and cleverly written fic, and I seldom get tired of re-reading it. It's relatively short, too - only about 13 or 14 chapters.

Whenever I feel like it, though, I like to re-read the Alexandra Quick series. It's in a class of its own. There is not a single fic that matches its quality, and it stands up to many a re-read. It does take a fucklong time though.

 

Let's see:
Swimdraconian: Circular Reasoning
Shezza: The Denarian Trilogy (plus assorted add-ons) - if you see this Shez, i still kinda hate you.
Silens Cursor: His shorter works particularly Chess and Criminal Limit, but neither looks like it'll receive an update any time soon, if ever.
Water Mage: All his fics especially the short ones (Awaken Sleeper is brilliant but not easily finished in one sitting) - From the Brightest Constellation and Theories About Nuclear Winter

I mostly go back and re-read these listed fics because each of them have elements of the writing that are so well done that I'm continually learning and referencing from them - from Swim's masterful prose to Silens' gripping dialogue and plotting to Shezza's everything to WM's duels and pure fun factor.

 

You absolutely had to tag them, didn't you?

 

AlbusPHolmes

What's up with the shezza hate?

 

For some reason, most Harry Potter fics bore me when I go to read them again, besides Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The Santi.

For Naruto, it's basically everything by Menace, Inert, and Life in Konoha's ANBU.