Fanfics that Would be Best-Sellers if They Were Published Books
I have lost sleep and turned in projects late just to finish most of these fanfics. I found them really addictive! So hopefully you will appreciate them, too.
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Zuko had never excelled at anything. Azula was a prodigy. Uncle always knew what to say. And Father... Father was strong, iron-like. But Zuko had only ever been good at surviving. Putting one foot in front of the other in a grim show of stubborn determination, gritting his teeth and bearing it. Survival was all he had ever been taught. He knew how to do it. So when he was kidnapped by the Southern Water Tribe, he expected to fight as he always had. He didn’t expect to be taught instead how to live.
In a warring land, the Water Tribe forgave the enemy in an act of defiance. For this, he was torn from them, and this time, his wounds won't heal so easily.
Forced back into nothing but survival, the last person Zuko expected to see was Hakoda's son. Hakoda was a promise of safety. The relentless blue of Sokka’s eyes was a promise of happiness. Zuko could have both if he just reached out his hands, but he found them clutching into fists. After all, he’d been burned one too many times.
But hey, at least between Hakoda and Sokka, Zuko could appreciate the family resemblance of pure, asinine stubbornness.
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It Started With The Number 3 (and stayed that way) by blurredink
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Nov 2025
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Another take on WHAT-IF Harry got rid of Voldemort in fifth year? Oh yeah and WHAT-IF he just so happened to fall in love with certain twins? In disguise. Under a wrong name, that is. Shenanigans ahead.
Also a take on self-discovery and gender fluidity.(Or the one in which Harry gives the headmaster the finger and decides to go exploring the Wizarding World on his own.)
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Ill-Gotten Gains by ghostmaybite
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
10 Oct 2025
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When his father and Tomura start planning the USJ attack, Izuku makes a plan of his own. It’s simple, only four steps:
1. Steal Eraserhead’s quirk
2. Use it to kill All for One
3. Give Erasure back, hopefully
4. Go to jail, probablyHe’s prepared for the plan to fail at any time, but surprisingly, it’s not until step 4 that things fall through.
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- Part 1 of THE HONOR OF THIEVES
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While Mighty Oaks Do Fall by WitchofEndor for distractedKat
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
27 Sep 2024
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High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel.
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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.
This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.
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A wallflower's thorns by A_ToastToTheOutcasts
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
19 Sep 2024
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Maybe one day he'd be unafraid to tell people that he existed. Stand tall and announce that he was, in fact, there. For now though, he was more than content going day to day, weaving past his classmates and having them none the wiser.
(Aka where Izuku does, in fact, have a Quirk, it's just that no one notices)
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Something Real by ArticulateFiction
Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians (2012), How to Train Your Dragon (Animated Movies)
12 Oct 2025
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When Hiccup Haddock moves in with his aunt and uncle for college, the last thing he expects is to stumble into the world of legends. But when his cousin Pippa insists that her mysterious friend Jack Frost is real, Hiccup discovers - much to his shock - that she’s telling the truth.
Becoming Jack’s first and only adult believer throws both of them into uncharted territory. At first, they clash - but slowly, they forge a strong and unlikely friendship. The closer they grow, the more obvious it becomes to everyone else - kids, Guardians, and meddling gods alike - that something bigger is taking shape... and a few of them can't resist interfering.
Bookmarked by LordShalott
14 Nov 2025
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It was very cute and simple to read a fanfiction where they were in Jack's world instead.
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White the Cursed by LexiThymme
Fandoms: Rise of the Guardians (2012), How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), Brave (2012)
19 Jan 2025
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His life used to be perfect : loving parents, the best baby sister ever, a bunch of friends he used to play and venture the woods with… But it’s all gone now. Nothing has ever been the same since the accident. Now his life is nothing but cold, shunning away and fear. People say he is cursed, and he has come to believe it too.
I apologize in advance, since English is not my main language you are doomed to find some mispelling and mistakes here and there...
Revised version of the fanfiction I posted on Wattpad.Bookmarked by LordShalott
12 Nov 2025
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I will warn there is an egregious amount of grammar and spelling mistakes, but I really like how short, simple, and cute this fanfiction is. The ideas behind this are also pretty creative. A great little angsty but happy ending read.
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When Harry finds an injured Snape on his doorstep and must hide him from the Dursleys, he has no idea that this very, very bad day will be the start of something good.
Harry and Snape are thrown together by annoying relatives, a series of strange dreams, and Voldemort's latest hunt for Harry, but their greatest challenge may well be surviving each other. This will be a long summer unless the two can find a way to work together. A slow-burn enemy-to-mentor story.
Alternate 6th summer (and part of the school year): post-OotP; ignores HBP and DH. No slash, no romance. NOW COMPLETE!
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Bookmarked by LordShalott
14 Oct 2025
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One of the best Harry Potter fanfics I ever read. I sure hope the author is still alive though, as I see no activity on their page since 2021.
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Obliviate by JessalynMichele, Severitus812 (JessalynMichele)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Oct 2021
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Harry survived impossible odds all his life: his hateful relatives, their abrupt decision to kick him out, and then the years he spent staying alive on the streets of London.
Situations weren’t impossible, not when Harry had the one thing that kept him safe and made him special: magic.
And then getting to go to school filled with other magic kids? Getting a gang of his very own? Finding out that he was famous and getting to learn more and more magic?
Life was brill.
Life was not so ‘brill’ for Severus Snape who saw a small boy covered in scars, stuttering when he spoke, and seemed to be filled with unresolved trauma. The boy he vowed to keep safe had a true knack for chaos, a knack that even Severus could hardly contain.
Welcome… to Year One.
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- Part 1 of Harry Potter & Seven Years of Chaos
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Be on guard, my Lord, writes Abraxas Malfoy, the new transfer student intends to kill you.
Except Abraxas has terrible penmanship, and kill and kiss look awfully similar in shoddy cursive.
Naturally, things escalate. A lot.
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Bookmarked by LordShalott
30 Aug 2025
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A very. sweet Tom Riddle in comparison to other fanfictions, but I absolutely adored him in this fic and for once, seeing things from Tom's perspective instead of Harry's.