Best Epic Criminal Minds Fanfics
Criminal Minds fanfics over 100,000 words — the reader-favorite epics that define the fandom. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 10 Epic Criminal Minds Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. These are the Criminal Minds epics readers come back to. Save them for offline reading.
Correspondence
by KatyTheInspiredWorkaholic
An AU where Reid never joined the FBI, but got roped into consulting for the LA field office while working and teaching at Caltech. Hotch gets his email referred from a fellow agent, and they start to work on cases together -- until they start talking on a regular basis.Regular becomes frequent, fre
Top Harry Sagas: Second Edition
by cozymonster
Top! Harry Potter stories stretched across whatever fandom I happen to stumble and trip head-first in.
SSA Pandora
by Skalder (Little_Ghoast)
The BAU team were stuck, they were thoroughly stuck on the case and didn't know where else to turn when help was dropped into their lap, courtesy of someone calling themself 'Pandora'. With help from this stranger they managed to solve the case and a meeting was soon set up. When they met Pandora th
JJ & Emily
by CallItWhatYouWantTo
A parallel story thread to Criminal Minds if JJ & Emily realized they were falling in love with each other but took forever to finally admit it. Follows the show with some modifications. Updated through evolution!
le vent l’emportera
by moonflowersbloomtoo
—opening wounds for the closureMy take on "Emily fell first, JJ fell harder".Unwanted fingerprints were left on her body by aged hands that raked through her hair, pushed themselves through meninges and hymen, and left her with gaping holes that would forever keep her empty. Her frame a sieve for lo
To Be Loved by You
by NoseyPepper
And that’s all it takes for Emily’s sobs to flood the room. The nurse lays Emily’s leg gently on the mattress and reaches for the tie at the front of her nursing gown as JJ leans Emily back against the bed. JJ sobs in unison with her wife as she watches the midwife lay a tiny, beautiful being betwee
Restoring Glass
by fabfemmeboy
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair." - Mitch Albom Coming to terms with the fact that his mother has
8:05 and counting
by Emereis
Aaron Hotchner: Unit Chief, Supervisory Special Agent, fifteen years in the BAU, stared down killers for a living. Current problem: his new tech analyst fills her water bottle at 8:05 every morning and he has noticed this exactly twenty-three times and he would very much like to stop.
Nothing wrong with asking for help
by DirtyDee_Dom23
A What if! type of story about how Derek Morgan and Spencer Reid's relationship evolve into something deeper then just a friendship, Derek struggling in his new life, and a near death experience bringing the two men close together again, causing their selves to get wrap up in a chaotic, spiralling s
What Lies Beneath?
by DirtyDee_Dom23
AU fic. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Derek Morgan have been send undercover for a case in Las Vegas, Nevada to help investigate financial law attorney William Reid. While there undercover, the agent and the attorney son (Spencer Reid) immediately catch each other eye, with that they quickly start t
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This list of 10epic Criminal Minds fanfics spans 1,563,726 total words. Kudos range from 40 on the newest entries to 5,491 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Explicit (6 of 10 fics).
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