My Reading Recommendations!
The full reading list! Hopefully you can find something here to sate your interests!
~Fanfiction~
*Glee—Kurt/Blaine*
Author: fleurdelisee
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Status: complete
Summary: Blaine finds an old turntable hidden away in the Hummel-Hudson basement, and sets about fixing it—it makes dancing all the sweeter.
Author: shia_labeouf
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Status: complete
Summary: Cuddling is always good for the soul.
Five Times Kurt and Blaine Sleep Together Before They ‘Sleep Together’
Author: waxpoetically
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Status: complete
Summary: Sometimes the best moments aren’t even the ones you’ll remember later.
Author: soundsaboutright
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Status: complete
Summary: There’s only so many things you can do to comfort your boyfriend when he’s just been elected Prom Queen. Cuddling in bed is one of them.
Author: sotto_voice
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: mention of sex
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Blaine never thought that attending the Starfleet Academy would be easy, but it would sure be more simple if he could get Cadet Hummel out of his head.
Author: Keitorin Asthore
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: violence towards children, language, child abuse
Status: WIP
Summary: AU: Burt Hummel didn’t fully understand what he was beginning when he took Kurt in for temporary foster care, but the little boy needs his help and who is Burt to step down?
Author: StoofinLunacy
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: bullying
Status: WIP
Summary: Set between Original Song and Born This Way. Kurt and Blaine might have a more difficult time than they thought with this whole ‘boyfriend’ thing, especially when sweet-talking transfer students and Burt Hummels are thrown into the mix.
Author: youpromisedmebroadway
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: language, bullying
Status: WIP
Summary: AU: Kurt Hummel makes do at McKinley High, but it’s never been easy, especially because Kurt lost his sight in the accident that killed his mother when he was eight. But things are about to change when he meets Blaine Anderson.
Sue Sylvester Thinks of the Children
Author: airgeer
Rating: R
Warnings: violence
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Everyone knows that the best way to win an election is to kidnap the opposing candidate’s son. But Sue will get so much more than she bargained for when she snatches Kurt from the Scandal’s parking lot.
Author: miyo_chan
Rating: R
Warnings: homophobia, language, violence
Status: WIP
Summary: AU:Blaine Anderson might have been killed in the 1950s, but that doesn’t mean he’s not still hanging around haunting certain members of the Hummel-Hudson house.
So Many Humans, So Many Colors
Author: MonochromaticSongbird
Rating: R
Warnings: rape, suicide, insanity, character death
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Blaine Anderson might be dead, but when he finds Kurt living within a mental hospital, he’ll still do his best to protect him.
Author: sotto_voice
Rating: R
Warnings: language, mentions of sex
Status: complete
Summary: AU:Kurt Hummel is planning the biggest wedding of his life…pity it’s for Robyn Gantry and Patrick Tucker. But when he takes a chance on an unknown band, complications arise in the form of an attractive lead singer and his misfit bandmates.
Author: Rainjoy
Rating: R
Warnings: infidelity through kisses, language
Status: complete, in continuing ‘verse
Summary: AU:There are three times that Kurt and Blaine almost break up, and then one time where they stop trying.
Klainetana ‘verse
Author: Rainjoy
Rating: R
Warnings: language, mentions of sex
Status: complete
Summary: Santana finds out that having Kurt and Blaine as friends holds some mutual benefits. Stories listed with the ‘verse.
Author: ohmygodstopit
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: allusions to a hate crime, language, eventual sex
Status: WIP
Summary: AU: Unable to escape the vestiges of a teenage romance gone wrong, Blaine Anderson tries to start anew at a small arts college in Vermont. But it’s only days before he finds himself falling for Kurt Hummel, and nothing seems to stop it.
Author: ohmygodstopit
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: semi-exhibitionism, underage drinking, sex
Status: complete
Summary: When champagne and the fall of rain lead to something more in the trunk of a car…
Author: Rainjoy
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: language, violence, sex, badboy!Blaine
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Kurt Hummel meets Blaine Anderson in detention one day after school, and it only gets worse from there. Continued here and here.
Author: emilianadarling
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: non-con/rape (Kurtofsky), violence, language, suicidal thoughts
Status: complete
Summary: AU: There are only a few people who know that Kurt has been cursed with the gift of obedience, but not all of them have his best interests in mind. With Kurt forced into a relationship with his roommate, there’s only one person who might be able to help him.
Author: emilianadarling
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Puckurt/Klaine, violence, language, dub-con, sex
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Having a werewolf for a boyfriend can seem romantic at first, until you factor in the actual realities of living within a pack. Lucky Kurt Hummel has a shotgun and knows how to use it.
Author: the Cimmerians
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: homophobia, language, age difference, sex with a minor
Status: complete
Summary: AU: There’s something enchanting about Kurt Hummel—vibrant, witty, inspirational, young, and oh so forbidden to a thirty-four year old artist.
Velvet Petals, Piercing Thorns
Author: a_glass_parade
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex, violence, character death (not K or B)
Status: complete
Summary: AU: With the War of the Roses rapidly approaching, certain people will do anything to bring down the opposing side. Enter Kurt Hummel, stable boy desperate to save his father, and Blaine Anderson, the lord who’s managed to make some powerful enemies.
Author: a_glass_parade
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex, language, mention of suicide attempt
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Kurt Hummel has one summer before he’s off to Europe to pursue his degree. Pity he had to fall in love.
Author: Chazzam
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: mentions of rape, sex, violence
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Blaine falls in the love with Kurt the first time he sees him, even if that first time is with Kurt chained as a slave and up for sale.
At Least Things Can’t Get Any Worse
Author: fleurdelisee
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex, language, mentions of eating disorder, smoking
Status: complete
Summary: AU: When there are two rival models both determined to break each other, the best way to resolve the tension is through blistering hot sex—everyone knows that. Everyone also knows you can’t let feelings get involved. Continued here and here.
Author: fleurdelisee
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: homophobia, violence, language, sex
Status: complete
Summary: AU: After his mistake of kissing the milk boy behind the shop, Blaine finds himself sent to a religious institution to be cured of his ‘disease’. Here, he meets Kurt, who immediately tells Blaine to leave him alone, or they’ll both be going to hell.
Title: Being Kurt Hummel
Author: flaming_muse
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: homophobia, sex
Status: complete
Summary: There’s a big difference between Kurt understanding who he is and truly accepting it.
Author: Rainjoy
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex
Status: complete
Summary: Snowflakes and warm milk make the perfect combination for a night with your boyfriend.
Author: Rainjoy
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: character death (not K or B), suicidal thoughts, homophobia, violence, depression, sex
Status: complete
Summary: AU:People deal with loss in different ways, but some people don’t seem to deal at all.
Author: WhenIDance
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex, age difference
Status: complete, in continuing series
Summary: AU:Falling in love with your professor can be a real hassle at times, but it’s always worth it in the end.
The Curious Existence of Kurt Hummel
Author: Elle Iver
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex, violence, Kum
Status: WIP
Summary: AU: It’s difficult, living as a cat/human hybrid in a Victorian world of new technology, rogue werewolves, and charming customers with a wolfish grin.
Author: triddlegrl
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex, prostitution, violence, Kurt/other, Blaine/Jeremiah, language
Status: complete
Summary: AU: It’s growing more and more difficult for Kurt to hide his particular line of work from everyone he knows, especially when he might still have lingering feelings for his best friend.
*Supernatural—Dean/Castiel*
Author: teh_helenables
Rating: PG
Warnings: character death (not D or C)
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Sometimes you can forget a past life, and sometimes it follows you.
Author: zoemathemata
Rating: PG
Warnings: language
Status: complete
Summary: AU: With the apocalypse over and done and an orphaned little girl on their hands, it’s time to attempt to settle down and start a family.
Author: liadan14
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: implied sex, homophobia
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Dean is almost eighteen when he finally meets the mute boy who understands that silence can say more than words.
Author: cloudyjenn
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: violence, language
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Castiel has been waiting thousands of years for his prayer assignment. But a simple prayer from Sam Winchester to help his brother find happiness turns out a lot more complicated than Cas had hoped.
Author: cloudyjenn
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: language
Status: complete
Summary: AU: A year after defeating Lucifer, Dean is still waiting for Castiel to return. And he’s willing to wait forever.
Author: cloudyjenn
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: language
Status: complete
Summary: Cas tries to woo Dean with some helpful hints from Cosmo magazine.
Author: seraphwings
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: some language, violence
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Lucifer might be fallen, but he keeps his one source of grace locked away in a tower, hidden from all but one inconvenient human. based on Tangled
This Story Needs More Power Ballads
Author:pyrebi
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: language
Status: complete
Summary: Sam’s life just really, really sucks.
Author: twentysomething
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: language
Summary: Sam and Dean have established several rules over the years to avoid killing each other, but Dean never thought he would have to play the ‘I saw him first card’ when it comes to Castiel.
And I Wake Up Blind, Like My Dreams Were Too Bright
Author: strangenessandcharm
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: language, violence, mental health issues
Status: complete
Summary: What can you do when the celestial being controlling your body forgets he’s an angel, and thinks you’re just a symptom of schizophrenia? For Jimmy Novak, the answer turns out to be: not much.
Author: twentysomething
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: language
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Despite a newly bedazzled apron and laughter still ringing in his ears—courtesy of Jess and Sam—Dean finds he quite enjoys work as a nanny in the Meyer household. For the sake of the children, of course.
The Assumption of the Winchesters (Plus Bobby)
Author: The Celebrated Miss K
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: complete disregard of respect for any and all religious figures, but all in good fun, language
Status: complete
Summary: AU: It’s much more fun to just go hang out in heaven.
Author: trinityofone
Rating PG-13
Warnings: language
Status: complete
Summary: AU: When Cas is officially adopted into the Winchester family, it leads to some mild confusion.
In This Secluded Spot I Respond As I Wouldn’t Dare Elsewhere
Author: rhymephile
Rating: R
Warnings: language, homophobia, bullying
Status: complete
Summary: AU: At first glance, Castiel assumes the new jock roaming the halls of his high school is just another bully he’ll have to endure.
Author: wormstaches
Rating: R
Warnings: brief sex scenes, use of drugs, alcohol, homophobia, intentional but not lethal overdose
Status: complete
Summary: All Dean can think when he first sees Castiel Collins lounging around campus in a variety of hideous sweaters is that he’s simply a pretentious, slutty genius. But maybe that’s just his type.
There’s Only One Sure Thing That I Know
Author: blinkiesays
Rating: R
Warnings: brief sex scene, language
Status: complete
Summary: AU after season 5: In all his years of fighting monsters, Dean never thought the thing that would beat him would be the state of Ohio.
Peanut Butter Pumpkin Wedding Cake
Author: SparseParsley
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex, language
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Dean’s working two (no, three) jobs all to get Sam through law school the night a bachelorette party arrives at the bar, complete with supposed groom-to-be in tow. The last thing Dean needs to do is fall for that groom…
Author: pyjamagurl
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: language, violence, sex
Status: complete
Summary: It’s only a few weeks after Dean teams up with Sam and Castiel once more after living with Lisa that he finds himself transported five years into the future. Which would be all in day’s work, except Dean never expected to find himself sleeping next to Cas and apparently in a committed relationship.
Author: liadan14
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: mentions of rape, violence, sex, language
Summary: AU: Based on ideas from Cinderella—Castiel has always been perfectly happy as a halfling—half animal-shifter and half human—until his mother’s death and his father’s remarriage to Zachariah, another halfling who believes that the wings Castiel wears proudly on his back are a sin. So begins Castiel’s slow subservience to his new family, the only upside being the friendship he forms with the man he discovered lost in the woods one day, who may or may not be royalty.
Author: cloudy-verses
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex, sex tapes, language, toys, wing!kink
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Good brothers know that when you’re short on money, the way to go is to work for a porn company that caters to the wing!kink industry, right? Or, at least, that’s what Gabriel says. Who is Cas to say no? And who is Dean to stop watching the unknown man with beautiful silver wings on his computer screen?
Author: cautionzombies
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: alcoholism, language, sex, five year age difference
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Dean is used to taking care of everything—as two jobs, an in-progress degree, and his little brother can attest to—until he finally finds someone who wants to take care him in return. But Castiel might not be as strong as he appears either.
Author: cloudyjenn
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex, language
Status: complete
Summary: Five ways that Cas makes Dean feel.
Author: rageprufrock
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: sex, language
Status: complete
Summary: When Dean realizes there are certain things Cas doesn’t know about residing in a human body, he decides to take things into his own hands—quite literally.
Author: lafleurdumal85
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: language, sex, homophobia, alcohol and drug use, reference to non-con
Status: complete
Summary: AU: Dean has already given up on himself by his senior year in high school. When the new kid in town pulls him from the water the night Dean nearly drowns, however, he realizes that he might have a second chance.
Author: strangenessandcharm
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: language, sex, threesome w/ female, non-con, dub-con, drug use, alcoholism, violence, character death, psychological stress
Status: complete
Summary: AU: end!verse: It’s 2014, and Dean Winchester has just successfully killed Lucifer and ended the Apocalypse. Unable to deal with losing Sam, he heads off alone, leaving Castiel behind in a mire of drug and alcohol abuse. But Cas is determined to find Dean again, only this time he has to do it as a human. (highly recommended)
~Books~
*a list of my favorite authors*
Catherine Jinks
author of: Evil Genius, The Pagan Chronicles and others
Margaret Atwood
author of: The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace and others
Terry Pratchett
author of: The Discworld Series
Neil Gaiman
author of: Anansi Boys
—also, be sure to read Good Omens—it’s a collab between Pratchett and Gaiman and is absolutely wonderful and hilarious
Jonathan Stroud
author: The Bartimaeus Trilogy
Megan Whalen Turner
author: The Thief
Brandon Sanderson
author: Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker
William Faulker
author: The Sound and the Fury
Fyodor Dostoefsky
author: Crime and Punishment
Sylvia Plath
poet: The Colossus, Lady Lazarus
