My Favorite Marvel Reads of 2025
I haven’t read marvel comics or marvel fics since like 2021? But something came over me in June and I’m back baby. Some of these are rereads, all are amazing…if you can’t guess Steve Rogers is my favorite character so he is the focus of almost all of these.
If you read any fics on this list share some love with the authors!
Ships in this list: Stony, Stucky, Samsteve, Thundershield, RhodeyTonyPepper, Gen (no romance)
**most fics are based on MCU canon but not all
Two-Point Perspective by FestiveFerret
Dear omega,Congratulations! You've been selected. Alpha #95847872 has been assigned as your pre-bondee. A group bonding ceremony will take place on the 14th, unless other arrangements have been made by your alpha or their family. A valid bonding license must be submitted to Omega Services within 45 days of this letter or all services will be cancelled and any transferable benefits will not be applied to your alpha's package.If there is some reason why you cannot be bonded on this date, please apply for an extension by calling 1-800-555-6827 within 7 days of receiving this letter.Sincerely,National Omega Services
This fic is an absolute comfort fic for me. It’s 100k words and I’ve read it three times this year. I am always coming back to it and highly recommend.
Object: Matrimony by BladeoftheNebula
Omega Tony Stark craves adventure and an escape from the life his parents have planned for him in New York. He places a listing in a marriage catalogue to seek a match with an alpha out West, and Sheriff Steve Rogers answers his advertisement. But finding a nice alpha doesn't mean it's all smooth sailing from there...
- A Mail Order Bride AU -
I am always returning to this story I have loved it for years.
Rockabye by BladeoftheNebula
Cute alphas didn’t appear out of nowhere to help ruined omegas. That was a widely accepted fact.
Tony Stark had always known his life wouldn’t be easy as a genius omega in an alpha’s world. But not even he predicted getting knocked up and forced to move to a small town in the middle of nowhere.
“Captain America represents the values of our country. The recent allegations about his sexuality are specious and designed to smear an American icon. Captain Rogers regularly attends the Church of Saint Agnes and invites the citizens of New York to attend worship with him this Sunday, April 14th. God bless America.”Nobody was ever going to know. Steve would be a good husband, a good father, and he’d never give in to sin and touch another man.
But Steve makes two mistakes, one after the other: he leaves two words out of the Pledge of Allegiance, and he doesn’t notice a camera flash among the strobe lights of a dark club, because he’s dancing with his clumsy hands on Tony’s hips.
recovering winter soldier!steve by meidui
series of 3 fics focused on winter soldier Steve.
Tony reached for the file opening it slowly, on top was a memorandum filled with dark black lines of redacted information. Clever hazel eyes widened as he skimmed through the text and the horrible truth became clearer.
“There were two?” he mumbled.
Fury hummed, “It would appear the history books got it wrong, Erksine used the serum twice….once on James Barnes, known as Captain America and the other, his best friend, a man named Steve Rogers.”
Tony leafed through the old papers, “How did we not know?”
Fury leaned forward than looking surprisingly pensive, "They scrapped the program, and Barnes was turned over to do bond drives with the war effort, while Rogers…he was sent to a secret facility.”
One More Troubled Soul by sara_holmes
Series with Captain America!Bucky & Winter Soldier!Steve. Features Winterwidow & Stony
the face and the mask are mirrors, baby (the genderqueer remix) byrunningondreams
When Tony’s young, he thinks maybe he’s built wrong. He thinks: Maybe one day, if he gets good enough, he’ll be able to redesign Tony Stark. Cast himself in a new mold. One day, he’ll be better.
the girl with the modern face by isozyme
“Nice to meet you. I’m Steve Rogers,” Steve said, sticking his hand out and trying to wrestle the interaction back into something normal.
“I know, sweetheart,” Tony said, ignoring his hand. “Rescue told me all about you.”
“Did you make her?” Steve asked. It had been implied that Tony was a tech-man, and she said he was her boss. It would fit together.
“Yes, the armor, that was me; she’s my bodyguard,” Tony said archly. “Impressed?”
The only good thing about the future is Tony Stark's bodyguard, Rescue. She's beautiful in her red and gold armor, and Steve will never know who she is.
Mister Fixit and the Mechanic by Mizzy
An Iron Man 3 AU, wherein Steve was defrosted too early, and after a couple of lonely decades working for SHIELD, decides to retire and run a hardware store called Mister Fixit’s in suburban Miami.
Tony Stark, presumed dead, presumed not-Iron Man, needs to make some weapons to take on the Mandarin’s mansion. A non-chain store that takes cash and doesn’t ask questions is just what Tony needs.
Steve becomes intrigued by the mysterious mechanic that keeps buying things from his store, but when he becomes more aware of what Tony the Mechanic is up to, is Steve ready to be this close to the world of superheroes again?
nights like this, i become afraid by sleeponrooftops
He never expects it to happen like this.
Falling For You (Hook, Line, and Sinker) by FestiveFerret
After being thawed, Steve's adrift in the 21st century. There's nothing for him here, just the endless cycle of pre-packaged food, pointless training exercises, and long hours at the gym. But when he takes on a new project, it leads him to a new friend - one who might open up all kinds of new doors, new feelings, new experiences. Or might just break his heart.
the holy or the broken (hallelujah) by sebastian2017
Captain America is the nation's All American, good Christian boy next door. Steve Rogers? He's not so sure. He's not sure at all what he's supposed to be without Bucky, but Shabbat and prayers and the warmth of shul on a lonely Friday night? It's like having Bucky back in a way, at least for a few hours.
aka: the one where Steve finds a new home while missing Bucky. Good thing it's one he can fit into perfectly when he comes back.
how light carries on endlessly by meidui
“I'm fine. I always heal up fine.”
“Do you?” Tony asks, two little words flaying Steve open. Steve looks up at him, and against the dusky light, Tony Stark strangely looks nothing like his father.
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Between a near-drowning in the Hudson River, a panic attack in the middle of a mission, and a kidnapping, Steve learns to be happy.
i want the green grass and the tomato plants by theappleppielifestyl
When Tony arrives to Stardew Valley, he spends the first five minutes staring.
(Or, a Stardew Valley AU. Tony rebuilds a farm and owns chickens. Steve paints.)
In which Tony and Steve get sent on an undercover mission aboard a cruise ship to make contact with Hydra. In this AU the military has kept the discovery and defrosting of Captain America a secret, so Steve and Tony have never met before. Yet they are to pose as newlyweds....
Black and Blue by FestiveFerret
When things at home with Brock go downhill, Steve takes refuge in the job he loves, as Tony Stark's PA.
Alpha Warlord Steve takes Omega Tony as his prize
Five Years of Solitude by Lunar_Pull
How Steve spends five unbearable years without Sam.
Maybe Home Is Somewhere I'm Going by astolat
They were about fifty miles from Atlanta when Sam stirred and yawned awake in the passenger seat. “Morning,” Steve said: the sun had come up, but the two-lane road was still pretty empty, a little morning mist hanging low over the asphalt and in the trees.
“I’ve sent you keys,” Tony said. “I’ve emailed, I’ve texted, I’ve called. Pepper called. There is an entire floor of Stark Tower waiting for you to move in. And instead here you are living in a two-bedroom shack out in the open with your — extremely hot, by the way, nice job there — boyfriend. The paparazzi are going to eat you alive, Rogers.”
knights of dishonor by CapnWinghead
Steve had a secret. In efforts to find what brought him joy in this new time period, he'd taken up drawing again. He hadn't set out to become a creator behind a popular Webtoon and it quickly spiraled into something beyond his control.
Not the Destination by KiaraSayre
Before they leave New York, Tony Stark (Tony Stark, Jesus, Sam's not over it, never ever over it) hands him an AmEx Black and says, "Don't let Cap spend it all on egg creams and quarters for the jukebox."
"That is exactly what I'm gonna do," Sam says. "Egg creams and jukeboxes, nonstop. That's how we roll."
between our bodies there's a battlefield by thingswithwings
Sam hadn't ever had cause to think about it, not really, but if someone had told him that he would end up in a pity fuck situation with Steve Rogers, gorgeous kind superpowered American war hero Steve Rogers, he would've assumed he was the one being pitied.
Escalation by thingswithwings
Sam and Steve get married via a series of escalating dares.
the press tour by CapnWinghead
With Stark's retirement, the public was concerned about the future of the Avengers. So, his PR team put together a press tour to introduce some of the new line up to the world. Naturally, Steve was chosen as a participant, despite his heavy reservations. Thankfully, Sam came along with him.
Or, how Steve Rogers learned about "thirst tweets", visited Disneyland for the first time and fell in love with his partner on the press tour from hell.
The Impossible Return by Goodnightsammy
In 1996, the wreckage of the Valkyrie was found off the coast of Greenland. The cockpit was empty. There was no body and no shield. There was, however, a leather-bound journal filled with letters to a man long dead.
In 2011, that same man is found frozen at the bottom of the Alps, still very much alive.
Or: The Winter Soldier Steve AU I never thought I'd write
Cinnamon and Thread by daphnomancy
“It hurts most the first time, but you get used to it,” Bucky whispered. Steve jerked at the sound; it was Brooklyn, it was 1939, it was Bucky. “Bucky!” he tried to scream through the gag, fresh tears coming down his face. “You’re strong though. You’ll make a good asset. I’ll show you.”“He’s secure,” Bucky said, voice toneless and mechanic once moreThe chair lowered and Steve was screaming through the gag, still thrashing against the restraints even harder. Something lowered over his head and pressed against his face. He could not even jerk his face away, he was held too tightly. He met Bucky’s eyes; desperate, terrified as he tried to tell Bucky everything, tried to convince Bucky to stop this through eye contact alone.The machine revved up under the chair. Bucky smiled down at him. Then all Steve knew was pain before darkness finally took hold of him. The last thing he saw was Bucky smiling. He looked the same.
better love by CapnWinghead
Sam Wilson was just starting out as Captain America and Bucky Barnes was running for a seat in Congress.
Getting drunk and married in Vegas hadn't been a part of either of their plans.
Thundershield (Steve/Thor)
Put Me Down by AzureTiger
Steve doesn’t like to be carried.
Five times Thor carried him against his will, and one time he wanted it.
Steve didn’t like to be carried.
love lies patiently by oopshidaisy
Even drunk as he is, Tony’s eyes narrow in suspicion. “Why’re you being so nice t’me?”
Rhodey shrugs. “Someone’s gotta.”
(Or: Rhodey and Tony from 1985 to 2010. They figure it out eventually.)
I Love Lucy by 16woodsequ
Fics within my Winter Soldier Steve AU, where he was sexually abused by Pierce before being rescued by the Avengers.