YA Book Recommendations for Fanfiction Tropes and Plots
Given fanfiction readers’ love of stories they should be an ideal audience for readers’ advisory, but where do you start? How can you reach out to them without learning more than anyone wants to know about their fic reading habits and peculiarities? Let’s start with some familiar tropes!
Popular pretenses for a fake relationship include family pressure, financial reasons, undercover work, or saving face with an ex with the point being to force the potential couple into close proximity so that feelings can develop or be exposed.
The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West
The Way to Game the Walk of Shame by Jenn P. Nguyen
No Love Allowed by Kate Evangelista
In this popular trope, one member of the potential couple is famous and the other half is just a regular girl or boy who may or may not be an adoring fan.
This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith
My Unscripted Life by Lauren Morrill
In meta fic the characters are aware they are in a story or are at least aware of the tropes being used in the story. Fans of meta fic will likely enjoy:
Enter Title Here by Rahul Kanakia
I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Gretchen McNeil
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Groundhog Day (Time Loop)
Characters are stuck in a loop where they must live the same thing over and over until a particular result is achieved.
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde
The Loop by Shandy Lawson
Friends to More (GLBT+ Edition)
Someone is crushing on their friend, luckily it turns out their sexual orientations are compatible. Yes, this is a common trope in everything but it’s also pretty much the basic fanfiction plot in every fandom I’ve ever seen. We’re doing gay, lesbian, and bisexual characters because of the most popular ships in fandom.
Been Here All Along by Sandy Hall
Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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