Fanfic Recommendation Challenge

My prompt table/list.

Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Shift
Author: Pet, at Bury Me Deep and apetslife
Characters: BSB,
Prompt: 22 UST
Rating: sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: Howie is nice and fun to spend time with now that Brian is completely wrapped up in Leighanne. He and Nick are friends, that's all, even if Howie has the prettiest smile and kind of sparkle... A very sweet story about the growing closeness between Nick and Howie.
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Link to the story: Shift


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Silence
Author: Lucy, at lucy_fic
Characters: BSB
Prompt: 37 Make-up
Rating: sex
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is a story about AJ in rehab and after, trying to put his life back together. The rest of the Boys are there for him, but from Nick there is only silence. A first-class AJ characterisation story.
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Link to the story: Silence

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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Martyr
Author: Georgina, at boys like that and eponymous
Characters: BSB, sundry stage hands, assistants, journalists, and photographers
Prompt: 16 Teamwork
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: Brian finally figures out what it is AJ does for the rest of the Boys. A well-written, funny, and insightsful story about the early days.
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Link to the story: Martyr


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Bite Marks
Author: Coreopsis, at *Nsnicker and coreopsis
Characters: AJ, Nick
Prompt: 48 Reccer's Choice
Rating: NC-17
Length: short
Brief summary: Two Boys, a car, some new music, what more could anyone want? And there is hot sex too.
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Link to the story: Bite Marks

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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Intense
Author: Coreopsis, at *Nsnicker and coreopsis
Characters: Kevin
Prompt: 44 Mask
Rating: -
Length: very short (less than 500 words)
Brief summary: A wonderful glimpse into Kevin's head during one too many photoshoots.
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Link to the story: Intense


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Any and Every
Author: Zoicite, at zoicite and zoicite
Characters: BSB, Justin Timberlake, sundry wives and bodyguards and plastic surgeons
Prompt: 46 Reccer's Choice
Rating: NC-17?
Length: long
Brief summary: This is a wonderfully long and satisfying story, filled with great interactions between the Boys, superb dialogue, and lovely characterisations. It's Nick's story and though he makes you feel alternatingly exasperated, fond, angry, distressed, and, at the end, glad, you cannot help but love him. In fact, you can't help but love everyone in this story - they all have their foibles and quirks but they're all equally lovable.
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Link to the story: Any and Every

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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Dark-Haired Men
Author: Mercutio, at Mercutio's Stories and bard_mercutio
Characters: Nick, Adam, AJ
Prompt: 33 Crossover
Rating: -
Length: short/medium
Brief summary: Nick is having a great time, alone and anonymous in Paris, and one evening he meets a fascinating, dark-haired, green-eyed man at a bar. A funny little story about Nick's meeting with Methos, with some nice insights into Nick's character, and a great cameo by AJ.
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Link to the story: Dark-Haired Men or here


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Pretty, Pretty Princess
Author: Patchwork Dragon, at Patchwork Dragon and patchworkdragon
Characters: BSB, Leighanne, Baylee
Prompt: 39 Break-up
Rating: -
Length: short/medium
Brief summary: A very sweet and funny story about the spectacular break-up of the Littrell marriage.
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Link to the story: Pretty, Pretty Princess

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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Titles: Choice & Insatiable
Author: Lucy, at lucy_fic
Characters: BSB
Prompt: 05 Sex
Rating: explicit sex
Length: medium & medium
Brief summary: Lucy has written so many incredibly hot stories I knew I wanted to use one of them for this prompt. Which one to choose wasn't that easy though and in the end I settled on both of these, since they form a coherent whole and neither can really be read without the other. They tell the story of how AJ and Howie got together and how Nick ended up involved too. Not only full of scorchingly hot sex, they also have great dialogue and characterisation. And they are funny too!
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Link to the stories: Choice & Insatiable


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Post-Show
Author: nafs, at Idle Dreams and nafs
Characters: Nick, AJ, the rest of BSB
Prompt: 13 Established Relationship
Rating: -
Length: short
Brief summary:A very warm glimpse into Nick's and AJ's relationship on the Never Gone tour.
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Link to the story: Post-Show

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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Perfect
Author: Georgina, at juppy.org and eponymous
Characters: BSB, Howie's boyfriend, Kristen, Leighanne, Baylee, asorted bodyguards
Prompt: 08 Friendship
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: I love on-tour stories and this is an unusually fine example. The characterisations are superb and the dialogue and interaction between the guys feels spot-on. This is much more a story about the friendship between the Boys than it is about the budding love between Nick and Howie. It's a story that makes me happy to read.
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Link to the story: Perfect


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Peace
Author: Lucy, at lucy_fic
Characters: BSB
Prompt: 20 Fight
Rating: explicit sex
Length: short/medium
Brief summary: A sweet story about Howie the peacemaker. And it got some really hot sex too. A good example of Lucy at her finest.
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Link to the story: Peace

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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Sexual Dead Things
Author: Kate & Nic, at sirkate & xoverau
Characters: AJ, Kevin
Prompt: 19 Dark
Rating: explicit sex
Length: long/epic, episodic
Brief summary: I've choosen the prompt Dark for this story because it's there everything starts: at night, in the dark club where AJ, the college student and method actor doing research, meets Kevin, the cross-dressing punk/goth singer doing a gig. The first chapters bristles with the tension between them, and while later installments may lack this they more than makes up for it with hot sex and interesting character development. This AJ and especially this Kevin are very different from how they usually are portrayed in fanfic, and it definitely adds to the appeal of this wonderfully unusual story.
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Link to the story: Sexual Dead Things


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Canticle
Author: Nic, at xoverau
Characters: BSB
Prompt: 26 Death
Rating: -
Length: medium
Brief summary: This is an enormously powerful and gripping story about Fae and mortals, creativity and music, love and death. The language matches the story, beautiful and haunting and not letting you go even at the end.
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Link to the story: Canticle

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Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Hours
Author: Becky, at BsB Miscellania and beckyo
Characters: Nick, Kevin
Prompt: 06 Anger
Rating: R
Length: short
Brief summary: Nick loves Kevin deeply and even if he's feeling both angry and hurt he's damn well going to make Kevin feel better. I love Nick's voice in this story, so matter-of-fact and straightforward and not the least bit refined.
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Link to the story: Hours or here.


Claim: Backstreet Boys: general
Title: Slumber Party
Author: Lucy, at lucy_fic
Characters: AJ, Nick, Lance Bass, Justin Timberlake, the rest of BSB and Nsync
Prompt: 10 Fandom Cliche
Rating: gropings
Length: short
Brief summary: It's the early days in Europe and AJ gets left behind with the other babies when the rest of the guys go to a club. Lucy effectively uses all the cliches about the early days to produce a hilariously funny little story with wonderful dialogue and some great characterisation.
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Link to the story: Slumber Party