Assorted recs, mostly more fresh than usual, including my favourites from this summer's Night on Fic Mountain, Lost Library exchange, Not Prime Time & Sutcliff Swap.

( 12 recs in Duchess of Malfi, LotR, Knight's Fee, P&P, Poirot, Silmarillion, Star Trek (DS9, TNG, TOS), The Tempest, Vorkosigan, Whoniverse, including crossovers )

Stories that are magical, charming, whimsical, atmospheric...

( 5 recs in Grand Budapest Hotel, The Listeners, M*A*S*H, Princess Bride, Twelve Kingdoms )

A smaller set than many years, but I'm still going to attempt to split them by theme. Here lie stories about women being sisters, daughters, wives, lovers, friends, rivals, collaborators, witches & storytellers, women coming into their power...

( 6 recs in Arthurian legends, historical RPF, Howl's Moving Castle, The Tempest, Watership Down, Welsh mythology )

More miscellaneous than usual, with the usual mix of old & older. Including my favourites from Night on a Fic Mountain 2014 & Not Prime Time 2013.

( 10 recs in Chalion, Doctor Who, Hamlet, HP, Narnia, Norse myth, P&P, Silmarillion, Torchwood, Watership Down )

Resurrection, zombies, Frankenstein's monsters & more than one flavour of anthropomorphised Death... seven very different takes on death not necessarily being the end. Another couple of my favourites (*)

( 7 recs in Calvin & Hobbes, Discworld, Frankenstein, Peter Pan, Romeo and Juliet, Songs )

Getting back to my interrupted set of Yuletide 2013 recs, here are sequels or AUs that fix problems in canon. Only a short set, but each of these works is long & satisfying.

( 4 recs in Moby Dick, Much Ado About Nothing, The Stand, Twin Peaks )

Little slices of lost canon, for when one's in the mood for more of, rather than more from, the source...

( 5 recs in Discworld, History Boys, Das Leben der Anderen, Much Ado About Nothing, Study in Emerald )

Clever & inventive dark stories, with a dash of creeping horror...

**Top ten selections

( 6 recs in Coriolanus, Historical RPF, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Interview with the Vampire, Lovecraft, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead )

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I was hoping to post my final two recs sets before nominations opened but they beat me to it! Here are stories where the background is richly developed, stories firmly set in their place and time, whether that's fantastical or historical...

( 7 recs in Earthsea, Fairy tales, Midsummer Night's Dream, Sunset Boulevard, The Tempest, War for the Oaks )