Anonymous
asked:
do you have any recs for (ya) books (or movies!) that ~feel~ like fanfiction? (this is a weird ask, but i feel like if anyone were to understand what i mean, it's you?) cheers
lotstradamus
answered:

books: 

  • A Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne (coffeeshop AU, but also MAGICAL) 
  • Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith (bisexual awakening slash sci-fi B movie apocalypse AU)
  • The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater (modern AU Marauders)
  • Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz (human/merboy AU)
  • The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (what if vampires? AU)
  • Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (a plain old fashioned high school AU of the first water) 
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt (college AU written by a classics major)
  • Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman (one of those boring in theory but actually incredible AUs that make you never want to read the source material ever again) 
  • Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (this is literally a novel based on fanfiction one of her characters wrote in Fangirl, sooo - COMING THIS OCTOBER)

other media: 

  • Penny Dreadful (gothic literature fanfiction with a few OCs, like Ethan, the gunslinging, soft-spoken, bisexual American werewolf) 
  • Jupiter Ascending (someone got their hands on the self-insert novel you wrote when you were 12 and threw a few million dollars at it) 
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier (I mean seriously) 
  • Sense8 (all these people have a mental connection, experience each others’ lives, and have singalongs and group sex) 
  • The History Boys (high school AU, bonus everyone’s queer) 
  • Kill Your Darlings (highbrow film about a literary movement, actually includes the shit you wanna see like library blowjobs and Daniel Radcliffe getting banged, possibly feels like fanfiction because visually it is Drarry) 
  • Agent Carter (cute G-rated WIP about Peggy’s adventures, will probably end up being Peggy/Angie, makes you cry about Steve like 10 times even though it’s a gen fic)