Rich!Dan Masterlist
Links last checked: May 29th, 2025
$ (ao3) - aby55al (abyssa1)
Summary: Rich boy Dan moves in with record store employee Phil while they attend university.
Beauty and the Punk (wattpad) - thatonewritingloser
Summary: Dan’s family is rich. But he doesn’t really care about money so he spends his life running amuck with his piercings and eventually tattoos. But, when his family has a guest over from France, it turns out to be a beautiful young man that Dan falls hard and fast for: Phil Lester.
Broken Silence - walruslovechild
Summary: Upper class teenager Dan Howell goes to live with a distant uncle, things change when he meets servant Phil.
come slow and overload (ao3) - jestbee
Summary: The first time he'd seen Phil, tending to the roses in the formal garden, his breath had caught in his throat and he'd stared for a little too long and wanted.
Dancing in a Snowglobe, Round and Round - notanannoyingfangirl
Summary: The last thing Phil Lester wants is to be forced to spend his Christmas break at school along with the other kids whose parents can't be bothered to spend time together, until he meets Dan Howell that is. Dan is everything Phil's not, rich, confident, (slightly annoying), and Phil won't lie, he's intrigued.
Darkshines (ao3) - Julliecious
Summary: For years now, Dan and his friends haven’t let Phil be. He’s bullied and tired of it, but he can’t make them stop. But he stumbles upon Dan’s tumblr one day and decides to get back on him, only it’s behind the safe walls of anonymousity. What Phil doesn’t know though, is that Dan isn’t as strong as he appears in school, and the anonymous messages gets much bigger consequenses than he’d thought.
Falling In Love With The Enemy - doomedhowell
Summary: punk!phil gets dared by Chris to ask rich!dan out. They hate each other and Phil doesn’t want to do the dare but he loves challenges. He only has two weeks until the deadline to make Dan fall in love with him.
I’m stuck in winter and you’re my fire (ao3) - creamy_nuggets
Summary: Dan and Phil are in university, and get paired in a project which requires them to spend time together. Dan is a rich popular guy with a seemingly perfect life, and Phil isn’t sure about him
Incompetent (wattpad) - -phantasizing-
Summary: or the one where Dan’s a billionaire and Phil’s struggling to get by
It’s Just The Way It Is (ao3) - Fangirlcraze
Summary: Dan is a rich British teen with no sense of how to live and provide for himself. His mother's job forces them both to move to America. Among all the changes, his new public school is much different than the all-boys private school he attended back in England. The families are poor, the kids aren't as rude, and America is filled with amazingly weird culture that Dan is cautious to explore. Phil is an American teen with a weekend job and an average SAT score. For community service hours, he has to guide a snobby rich British teen on how to adjust to a new school and eventually, a new perspective on life.
Key Signature - lionsheart
Summary: the one where dan’s a piano prodigy and phil is homeless (but that’s a secret to everyone but himself).
Level Nine. (ao3) - heyitsnxel
Summary: No one ever sat at the bar, until one night someone did.
Living is Easy with My Eyes Closed (ao3) - TheUKAmazingDan
Summary: September 19, 1976
Dan Howell liked pretty things and a pretty guy, but not the one who was interested in him. No, Dan was infatuated with someone he couldn't have.
Lumos - andromehdas
Summary: Phil is sent to a boarding school to help improve his education and while he is there he meets Dan, who is an arrogant bastard but is a lot more than he seems underneath… supernatural! dan, high school au
Million Dollar Man (ao3) - metal_arm_metal_shield
Summary: An AU where Dan and Phil are both powerful, filthy rich, and just plain filthy men. At an extravagant business party hosted by Phil, Dan steals him away to give him a show.
No Strings Attached - phangirling-is-life
Summary: Phil is living in London and struggling for money. He signs up for a sugar daddy website and meets Dan. Dan has inherited his fathers company and hates the long hours. He doesn’t get time to go out and meet people. He decides to get a sugar baby.
Paris Never Felt So Euphoric (ao3) - t_hens
Summary: Dan is a wealthy heir who is bored of the party life in California so he takes a spontaneous trip to Paris where he meets a mysterious architect named Phil. Older, fun, and mature, he is the opposite of everything Dan is used to. Could a stranger and spontaneous trip be exactly what Dan needs?
pity party (ao3) - lovekilla
Summary: Dan Howell thinks the world revolves around him, and when his 'friends' grow tired of it, they ditch his party. Except, instead of sitting home alone, someone comes to teach the brat a lesson.
Resistance - amazingdanielhowell
Summary: Dan moved up to Manchester after his already successful parents got a promotion and moved to be closer to work. Dan is lonely seeing as his parents are always too busy for him. Since birth, he’s had a life plan that he is to follow exactly, though he wants to create his own future. He meets a really quiet kid, Phil, who never talks to anyone and is known as “Freaky Phil” by everyone in school. Dan decides to give the boy a chance, though Phil isn’t exactly the easiest person to talk to…
Royalty - oakleysfthoying
Summary: Dan comes from a rich family. His parents had already arranged a marriage for Dan but Dan would much rather be with the boy who works at the town’s coffee shop. Things get complicated when Dan’s parents find out. Dan and Phil have to figure out how to be together.
That's The Beauty Of A Secret (ao3) - softsocks
Summary: 'You know you're supposed to keep it'
Phil loves being the only one to touch Dan. But sometimes, keeping their relationship in the dark, facing all the rumors from his peers - it can hurt.
The Real Reason Why (ao3) - maytheday
Summary: The Howell family goes to Mrs. Lester's birthday party, where Dan meets a boy named Phil.
