The Housefic Meta Library

May 23, 2009 17:29

Once upon a time, the Housefic_Meta members got together and said: there ought to be a way to put together a “must read” list of House fanfiction stories -- something that appeals to a broad range of readers, is in character, is well written ... the kind of stories you can use to introduce new fans to House fanfiction. (The original discussion on it, if you’re interested, is here)

The result of this musing is the Housefic Meta Library, formerly called the House Fanfiction Hall of Fame. While it may not have everyone’s personal favorites list -- or the favorites of any particular 'ship -- it does have a cross-section of fics that are worth reading. Think there’s no such thing as good Cameron oriented fic? Find it here. Frustrated by weepy Wilson fic? Check some of these out. They range in length from less than 1,000 words to more than 90,000.

The Library fics -- with nomination open to any fics from any reader -- are listed here according to their average score from voting as of this posting. You can find links to the fics and to the discussions on those fics. Authors, if you prefer a different link, let us know. If you find a problem with a link, let us know.

ETA: Just to let you all know, here's the way the voting works. Each vote is worth a certain number of points (3 for a "without reservations" down to 0 for "not a hall of fame fic.") We add up the total number of points and divide by the number of votes to get the average. Anything averaging 1 or higher (or honorable mention) is voted into the Hall. They're listed here in order from the highest average on down. Those that are tied at the same average, say 2.87, are listed alphabetically.

List was last updated in October 2009, and will be updated again with results of current round of fics later this summer/fall. You can find the latest fics and discussions on the main threads at Housefic_meta. Think something’s missing? Mention it on this thread, and we’ll get the process started. (The caveat as always, authors can turn down a nomination. Some have.)



Title: About Time
Author: Namaste
Summary:While recovering from brain surgery carried out in "Euphoria," Foreman makes a trip home to visit his mother, who has Alzheimer's disease.
Discussion: here

Title: Walking Ghost
Author: pwcorgigirl
Summary: House’s patient leads him -- and the reader -- into a complex world of espionage. A multi-fandom crossover.
Discussion here

Title: Whining and Dining
Author: mer_duff
Summary: Dinner at the diner, House and Wilson style.
Discussion: here

Title: Locked Up and Set Free
Author: Dee Laundry
Summary: Action and inaction; proximity and distance; consequence and meaning. What Wilson says; what House does.
Discussion: here

Title: Tracking Time
Author: Namaste
Summary: A history of House and Wilson's friendship from its
beginnings through the start of Season One.
Discussion: here

Title: Down To The Water
Author: blackmare_9
Summary: House and Wilson take a road trip and vacation in the wake of the events of "House's Head" and "Wilson's Heart."
Discussion: here

Title: The Body Found
Author: fourteencandles
Summary: Wilson goes missing.
Discussion: here

Title: Into White
Author: pwcorgigirl
Summary: A patient's death leads to a discovery for Chase.
Discussion: here

Title: All Good Things
Author: rubberbutton
Summary: Life, death and a double shot of irony.
Discussion: here

Story and link: Eden Sank To Grief
Author: shutterbug_12
Summary: A series of twelve episodes that chronicles House and Stacy's relationship.
Discussion is here

Title: Strategies and Exchanges
Author: PWCorgigirl
Summary: House has an encounter with a hooker, and does some reflecting.
Discussion: here

Title: Intersections
Author: daasgrrl
Summary: A variation on the Schrodinger's Cat experiment, but with Wilson.
Discussion: here

Title: A Modest Proposal
Author: ignazwisdom
Summary: Tritter's case against House still depends on subpoenaed testimony from Wilson. To save House from losing everything, the doctors of PPTH decide on an unusual solution, which in turn leads to unexpected consequences. This is a story about the sacrifices we make that turn out not to be such great sacrifices after all.
Discussion: here

Title: When It Really Mattered
Author: karaokegal
Summary: It wasn't supposed to happen this way. It wasn't supposed to happen at all.
Discussion: here

Title: Player Piano
Author: leiascully
Summary: House becomes a jazz musician, rather than a doctor.
Discussion: here

Title: Grieving
Author: daasgrrl
Summary: House deals with loss in interconnected 100-word drabbles.
Discussion: here

Story and link: The Piano
Author: asynca
Summary: House left both Wilson and Cuddy a goodbye note, but his parting gift to Cuddy was his treasured piano.
Discussion is here

Title: A Distorted Genius
Author: hwshipper
Summary: Wilson's been arrested on suspicion of murder, and only Nero Wolfe can help. (H/W Friendship, crossover.
Discussion: here

Title: No Little Charity
Author: Perspi
Summary: It was an old ritual, old magic from before the world had rational explanations and cold science. Cold science had failed House; Wilson had nothing left to try but this.
Discussion: here

Title: A Life Never Lived
Author: Mer_Duff
Summary: Wilson learns that Cuddy didn't want him as a donor and that Julie had an abortion.
Discussion: here

Title: A Map of the Body
Author: PWCorgigirl
Summary: Ingrid the massage therapist assesses House’s body, discovering his past and his future.
Discussion: here

Story and link: A Voice In Ramah (Welcome To Holland)
Author: ignazwisdom
Summary: Cuddy centric.
A voice is heard in Ramah,
Lamentation and bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children,
Refusing to be comforted for her children,
Because they are no more. (Matthew 2:18)
Discussion is here

Title: Playing For Position
Author: npkedit
Summary: Just how did Chase manage to make it where no other fellow had gone before?
Discussion: here

Title: Blow the Candles Out
Author: Syal
Summary: It's Wilson's birthday, and while Julie may not have a clue about what he wants, House does.
Discussion: here

Title: For Every Closed Door
Author: starlingthefool
Summary: Crossover. House dies and becomes a reaper.
Discussion: here

Title: Eight Days, Eight Months
Author: namasteyoga
Summary The story of House and Stacy's original breakup, told through one day glimpses of their lives between the infarction and her departure.
Discussion: here

Title: Things To Do Before You Die
Author:thedeadparrot
Summary: In which Wilson turns thirty-eight and a half, thinks about kittens, and doesn't have a midlife crisis. But not necessarily in that order.
Discussion: here

Title: Aftershocks
Author The black_cigarette collective
Summary: n the wake of the Tritter investigation, House deliberately distanced himself from Wilson and found himself owing a large gambling debt to a particularly vicious gangster. When House balked at paying, the retribution came down not on House, but on Wilson, who was kidnapped and assaulted within an inch of his life by the gangster's hired thugs. The leader of the thugs, we learn, knew House in his early adolescence. This story is what happens after Wilson is found alive and the long process of healing and forgiveness - with a certain amount of retribution -- begins.
Discussion: here

Story and link: Extreme Weather
Author: phinnia
Summary: House leads Wilson on an unusual vacation, in an unusual place. Spoilers for “Frozen.”
Discussion is here

Title: Letters of Transit
Author: nightdog_writes
Summary: House follows a series of postcards from Wilson to an unusual and unexpected conclusion.
Discussion: here

Title Little Boy Blue
Author: topaz_eyes
Summary: House deals with a new patient, and his mother’s death.
Discussion: here

Story and link: Lead You Into The Night
Author: cryptictac
Summary: What's the differential for a woman who says she hates her baby?
Discussion is here

Title: Nocturne in Gray and Gold
Author: ignipes
Summary: A piano, a motorbike, a river, a few telephone calls, fifty cents gone for good, and one late-night conversation about the lies our forefathers told us.
Discussion: here

Title: In The Big House
Author: mer_duff
Summary: A good friend will bail you out of jail; a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn that was fun!" Or maybe not.
Discussion: here

Title: Left Of West
Author: hannahrorlove
Summary: It's a different room but everything's the same.
Discussion: here

Title: Safe From Harm
Author: Maya Tawi
Summary: In the author's words: "This story is what happens when I mainline old House episodes, re-read The Gun Seller, and then fall asleep and have cracked-out dreams. For some reason, my brain decided that House needed an Adventure. I was only too happy to comply." House and Chase, mostly.
Discussion: here

Title: A Man Should Know
Author: Perspi
Summary: What Foreman learns about guns when he’s young, changes his life.
Discussion: here

Title You Already Know How This Will End
Author fourteencandles
Summary: Varying points of view -- House in and post-rehab.
Discussion: here

Story and link: The Open Road
Author: pun
Summary: Wilson goes along for the ride. (Originally written for the House Big Bang challenge.)
Discussion is here

Title: Intervention
Author: Sy Dedalus
Summary: A detailed look at what happened before, during and after the events of the first season episode “Detox.”
Discussion: here

Title: A Button, A Feather, a Grain of Sand
Author: nightdog_writes
Summary: House is away at a medical conference, and keeps in touch with Wilson by sending him daily gifts of rather enigmatic objects.
Discussion: here

Title: Things That Go Bump
Author: Kaye peg22
Summary: Wilson has nightmares, House gets a headache.
Discussion: here

Title: Ides of March
Author: finding_jay
Summary: So reality was wrong. Reality is almost always wrong.
Discussion: here

Story and link: The Sudden Loss Of Self
Author: srsly_yes
Summary: From a sickwilson_fest prompt: "Wilson is paralyzed from the waist down (or some similar injury, this was inspired by "Fifth Of July" a play RSL was in), becomes very depressed and angry and House has to help him find a reason to go back to work and keep helping people." Boil it all down, and what do you have? A story about friendship.
Discussion is here

Title: All Who Wander
Author: Acidic Flower
Summary: A nice, meaty piece about Wilson, House, their deep bond and the separate internal conflicts it reveals in both characters
Discussion: here

Title: Time For Some of Us
Author: joe_pike_junior
Summary: House’s world had always been on a shakier axis than some, more marked by instability than almost anyone Wilson knew. (House and Wilson friendship)
Discussion: here

Title: Muse
Author: pwcorgigirl
Summary: House falls in love with a piano, and with a woman.
Discussion: here

Title: Pathogenesis and Intervention
Author: Shalott
Summary: House discovers a smallpox outbreak and he, his team, Wilson and the rest of Princeton-Plainsboro have to deal with the growing emotional and physical toll of treating the victims.
Discussion: here

Title: Weaving Time in a Tapestry
Author: Auditrix
Summary: Coffee, biscotti, and a chance encounter with chess players sends House back to reflecting on the past, to a girl he met when he was a resident and a long car ride they shared before Christmas.
Discussion: here

Title: Walkabout
Author: Karabana
Summary: Chase after his father’s death. Not all who wander ...
Discussion: here

Title: In Memoriam
Author: Stick Marionette
Summary: House is dead, but he won’t let anyone forget him.
Discussion: here

Title: Paladin of Empathy
Author: Perspi
Summary: No one stayed that close to House without possessing something unyielding. Cameron discovered hers.
Discussion: here

Story and link: Karma
Author: californiaquail
Summary: Kutner and House discuss religion, goodness, evil and the meaning of life after Kutner witnesses something incredible. Includes a side of Foreman, Chase, Cuddy, Cameron and Wilson.
Discussion is here
Please Note: Check with this posting to access fics by Californiaquail.

Title: Last Rites
Author: Dira Sudis
Summary: Rowan Chase dies, and House sends Cameron to keep (Robert) Chase company.
Discussion: here

Story and link: Resurrection of the Unspoken Word
Author: srsly_yes
Summary: A nontraditional love story. How much do House and Wilson love each other? (Check out the fic header for more info on what to expect.)
Discussion is here

Title: A Love Restrained
Author: Esse
Summary: Wilson doesn’t really know what he wants, but he finds some of it with House.
Discussion: here

Title: The Biggest Lie
Author: mojokitten
Summary: House and Cameron are inexplicably dating.
Discussion: here

Title: Horse
Author: PWCorgigirl
Summary: Wilson, Foreman, some basketball and some memories.
Discussion: here

Story and link: Wingman
Author: srsly_yes
Summary: Friendship, blindness, and a charity ball. House-Wilson friendship story with a kind of role reversal.
Discussion is here

Title: Kayser-Fleischer Rings
Author: drworm
Summary: House’s birthday stirs up bitter thoughts about human nature and a conversation about circles with Wilson.
Discussion: here

Title: My Fathers’ Son
Author: dee laundry
Summary: House and Wilson raise a son together. Told from the son’s point of view.
Discussion: here

Story and link: Teddy House
Author: alex51324
Summary: Crack. In this story, House is turned into a teddy bear and it’s up to him and Wilson to find out how to fix it, as well as exploring various trials, tribulations and obstacles along the way.
Discussion is here

Title:
No Less A Devil For That
Author: Branwyn
Summary: Cameron gets an a series of increasingly unsettling letters, and House steps in to investigate.
Discussion: here

Story and link: Woodwinds
Author: queenzulu
Summary: Wilson doesn't end relationships; he launches himself headfirst into something even more disastrous instead.
Discussion is here

Title: Only Human
Author: Peak in Darien
Summary: It’s a beautiful thing, Wilson is thinking.
Discussion: here

Story and link: In Transit
Author: lightlikewater
Summary: House and Wilson go to Iowa.
Discussion is here

Story and link: Decameron
Author: nakannalee
Summary: Cameron/House one-sided with House/Wilson as pairings and an unreliable narrator. From the author's note: This is what happens when I'm in the middle of a Gothic novel and a course on the Renaissance. The title--as well as the basic layout--are borrowed from Boccaccio, a 14th century writer. Um, trust me, it's not as haughty as it sounds.
Discussion is here

Title: Lillies
Author: AndreaLyn
Summary: Those who knew House in life react to his death.
Discussion: here

Title: Not Another Date
Author: Genagirl
Summary: House invites Wilson and Cameron to go to the carnival.
Discussion: here

Story and link: Essential Elements of Teamwork
Author: asynca
Summary: Cuddy makes a last attempt to get pregnant and, predictably, House can't help interfering. It's up to Wilson to clean up after him.
Discussion is here

Title: Going Home
Author: mer_duff
Summary: Wilson discovers you can go home again, as long as you know where home is.
Discussion: here

Story and link: These Chords Are Old But We Shake Hands
Author: californiaquail
Summary: House does Wilson a favor and ends up learning something important about himself.
Discussion is here
Please Note: Check with this posting to access fics by Californiaquail.

Title: Casino
Author: Bellsie
Summary: Away from the confines of PPTH, Cuddy tries to relax but ends
up doing a lot of thinking about the men in her life.
Discussion: here

Title: Take As Directed
Author: Jennamajig
Summary: House’s relationship to Vicodin, and its side effects.
Discussion: here

Title: Paper Moon
Author: cryptictac
Summary: Wilson is stuck in a life he no longer wants.
Discussion: here

Title: As Heroes Are
Author: eudaimon
Summary: Seven years after the events in "Kids," Mary, the diver, comes back from the London Olympics to visit Eric Foreman.
Discussion: here

Story and link: Arureos (Greek For Rat)
Author: deelaundry
Summary: From an HW Fest prompt: “Wilson gets attached to Steve McQueen during House’s hospitalization and is loathe to admit it and/or return said rat.”
Discussion is here

Title: True At The Time
Author: Miss Parker
Summary: Cuddy wanted a little baby with blue eyes so badly it made her short of breath.
Discussion: here

Story and link: The Devil's Playground
Author: fayding_fast
Summary: House meets a strange man who promises he can help him to get his friendship with Wilson back on track.
Discussion is here

Title: Traditions
Author: Adrienne S.
Summary: New Year’s Eve has its traditions. So do House and Wilson.
Discussion: here

Title: Metaphysics
Author: Extrabitter
Summary: Wilson finds himself inexplicably drawn to return early from a conference.
Discussion: here

Title: The Contract
Author: DIY Sheep
Summary: Everybody lies. Including House, lying to protect Wilson, Cuddy, the ducklings. House goes to prison, and if you've seen prison movies, imagine the worst. Wilson is there to save his friend - physically, mentally, emotionally.
Discussion: here

Title: The Java Jive
Author: Namaste
Summary: House and Wilson hang out, talk and drink coffee.
Discussion: here

Title: Messengers
Author: Telegram Sam
Summary: Wilson ponders death and ravens.
Discussion: here

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