CR is an admired enough a story that it's incurred the backlash effect.

Human Condition is a very special story too.

 

Embers is the one fic I read and reread and reread some more. I know its got a lot of detractors, and several faults, but I still cannot stop reading it.
On the HP side,
Retsu's Folly.
Conlaodh's Song and it's predecessor.

 

Wow, I didn't realize how hard this question was until I tried to comb through my favorites list and pick one. There are a bunch that aren't finished that I really enjoyed, but I think my all time favorite hp story was A Black Comedy (cliche, I know ).

Runners-up would be Stranger in an Unholy Land (another cliche! argh), Backward with Purpose (I don't remember it very well now, but I know it was one of those that had some parts that hit me pretty hard--though I'm bettin its sappier than I remember, haha), Dagger and Rose, and Prince of the Dark Kingdom. Since some of these I haven't read in a long time, it's hard to put any of them ahead of the others, heh.

Outside the fandom, for Naruto I think it's actually a little known fic called Food for Thought, but it hasn't been updated in a long time. I also really liked Time and Again for the first part, but it really started to drag in later chapters, and I've heard the sequel is kind of miserable.

Star Wars would probably be Shadows of the Future (I knoooow, it's sappy and feel-good, but it's still the best star wars time-travel imo) along with any of blank101's stuff.

I have a secret love for time travel and cross dimension fics, I guess.

 

Wow. I have a few favourites, but I'll split them by fandom.

So, in Evangelion, ARSENAL and While You Were Sleeping.

In HP, Ectomancer, Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived, Renegade Cause(probably my favourite) and I quite enjoyed The Skitterleap. Also, seconding Prince of the Dark Kingdom and Dagger and Rose.

Naruto fics: Houses of the Holy (which should be updating, Howdy), Operator and Reload (both by Case13, one of the best authors in fanfiction) and People Lie. Dick author, but good story.

Code Geass: Lelouch of Brittania, and in Bleach Uninvited Guests.

Sorry for not picking one, but there are too many good fics. Thats one phrase you don't hear often.

 

Bright the Day- An interesting take on Bellatrix.

What Would Slytherin Harry Do?- Exactly what every Slytherin!Harry should be.

Not Slytherin Enough- See above

You're a Wizard, Potter- Really funny and a really awesome Harry

Gossip Queens- The best post-DH oneshot out there, imao.

Timely Errors- I can't say why this appeals to me as much as it does. It's pretty standard, yet someone manages to be amazing. Maybe it's the writing. It's got awesome writing.

Death Note: Apples Equals Cyanide Equals Light- Entrancing and perfect. And somehow artistic and deep. I can't accurately explain this one.

Code Geass: Dauntless- One of those rare fanfics that absolutely surpass canon in every single way, imao. Not to mention one of the best update rates I've ever encountered.

 

The Denarian Series.

Revisited this trilogy atleast 10 times, and it (and this site) is what got me into the Dresden Files.

 

Queens of Darkness, Ladies of Light.

I never hated an author for abandoning a story until Thalarian dropped this.

 

Circular Reasoning
Prince of the Dark Kingdom

These two have to be my favorites...

I have a huge soft spot for Friend or Foe by Niger Aquila though.

 

Lust of a dark soul, Changing faces: they were the first fics written in English that I read, and you never forget your first love, right?

On the way to greatness, a Black Comedy, Intoxication and the Unforgiving Minute.

 

For Harry Potter fiction I'm going to have to go with Browncoat, Green Eyes. Only fic that has yet to get old among Harry Potter fanfiction.

For Naruto I'm going to go with Reload. There's just something engaging about it.

For Love Hina fanfiction I'm going to have to go with Hajime no Keitaro. This fic is a work of art to me. Between this and Browncoat, Green Eyes I'm not sure which one is my overall favorite.

Favorite pokemon fic is Regret.

 

Brown Coat, Green Eyes by nonjon is easily my favorite, and I usually hate crossovers.

The Lie I've Lived by jbern is a damned close second though. No other H/F fic has come close to scratching it.

 

The Denarian Trilogy without a doubt. I could re-read these stories again and again without growing bored.

 

Hasn't changed since the last time, my answer's still The Song of the Trees by Tinn Tam. The Denarian Trilogy comes at a close second.

Also, my favourite Inheritance fic would have to be Flawed Perfection.

 

Case13's Art of the Deal (Naruto)

Jedi Boadicea's Frozen Sky and Facets for Bleach

 

In no particular order,
Wastelands of Time
Backward With Purpose (deadwoodpecker; multipart)
Renegade Cause
Dumbldore's Army and the Year of Darkness (thanfiction)
Shezza's Denarian trilogy (not linked because DLP is the best place to read it)
On His Way to Greatness (mira mirth)
What Would Slytherin Harry Do?

And stories with more pervasive flaws that I enjoyed a great deal (just among the ones mentioned in this thread) include Sound of Sorcery, Harry Potter and the Years of Rebellion, Wit of the Raven.

 

Tomas the Betrayer's Hammered Down, Bleach as it should have been.

 

For Harry Potter it's clearly Caliburn's Ambient.

Honorable mentions to the usual: A Black Comedy, Browncoat, Green Eyes, Wastelands of Time and the Denarian Series, but Ambient is the clear winner imo.

For Naruto I'd have to say SoulShdw's The Tragedy of Repetition.

I know that many people like to criticize several things regarding this story - rightly so - but I simply love everything about it. Part of my reason for this is that this contains the best Anko ever written.

LT2000's Stain is brilliant too, but either he updates really slowly or this is abandoned. A pity.

 

Wastelands of Time gets my vote - it's one of the few fanfics I've read right to the end.

Don't much care for crossovers, but the Denarian Trilogy is an example of doin' it right.

 

Here's five. Four HP fanfics and one non-HP.

Nonjon. Browncoat, Green Eyes.
Ruskbyte. Evil Be Thou My Good.
Jeconais. Perfect Situations & the Matyorshka Vignettes.
Rorschach's Blot. Make a Wish.
Juan Suros. It's Not My Fault. Vorkosigan Saga. I really should put this up for the other fandoms category in the library.

 

I started reading Stranger in an Unholy Land last night after seeing it mentioned a couple times in this thread. To be honest, I just don't see what's so great about it. The story is interesting and original for an alternate dimension fic, sure, but the writing is just okay and there are a fair number of cliches in it. It's not that it's bad, but I can't imagine putting it on level with WoT or CR or Shezza's work. Does it get better as it goes on, or something?