Best Epic One Direction Fanfics
One Direction fanfics over 100,000 words — the reader-favorite epics that define the fandom. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 22 Epic One Direction Fanfics
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Young & Beautiful
by Velvetoscar
Louis, to his horror, attends an elitist university in which the name Zayn Malik means something, Niall Horan doesn't stop talking, there are pianos everywhere, and Harry Styles, only son of a drug-addled, clinically insane ex-rocker, has a perfect smile and empty eyes.
Escapade
by dolce_piccante
In the grand scheme of things, finding a date for a wedding should be no problem for Louis Tomlinson. He's rich. He's handsome. He's reasonably well behaved. But when the wedding is for his lifelong best friend (and former boyfriend), and is happening in under a month, finding a date for the ceremon
Unbelievers
by isthatyoularry
It’s Louis’ senior year, and he’s dead set on doing it right. However, along with his pair of cleats, a healthy dose of sarcasm and his ridiculous best friend, he’s also got a complicated family, a terrifyingly uncertain future, and a mortal enemy making his life just that much worse. Mortal enemies
Fading
by tothemoonmydear
Louis knows about beauty; the combination of qualities that pleases the aesthetic senses. He creates that combination every day in the garments he designs while studying fashion at uni. The cut of the design, the color of the fabric, the intricacy of the stitching; it all comes together to create so
Soft Hands, Fast Feet, Can't Lose
by dolce_piccante
American Uni AU. Harry Styles is a frat boy football star from the wealthy Styles Family athletic dynasty. A celebrity among football fans, he knows how to play, he knows how to party, and he knows how to fuck (all of which is well known among his legion of admirers). Louis Tomlinson is a student an
Bloodsport
by isthatyoularry
How come falling in love with the person he hated most was so easy? Who the hell did this guy think he was? How could he stand there on the pavement, gorgeous and beautiful, and make Harry fall back into a swirl of desire, when fifteen minutes ago he made his skin prickle with hurt? God, he hated hi
Baby Heaven's in your Eyes
by theboyfriendstagram
They couldn’t be more different if they tried. Louis Tomlinson is 17 years old and in his last year of the most prestigious private school in Doncaster. If there’s one thing that completely annoys him, it’s that there is a poor community college right across the street.Harry Styles is 19 years old,
Relief Next To Me
by dolce_piccante
AU. What happens when a baker and a graphic designer meet via a very specific Craigslist post? Fate, friendship, food, and maybe more.
Cold Little Heart
by seducedbycurls
Louis is a soft omega with an abusive past and an alpha childA few months after getting a divorce, Louis meets Harry, an ex-military alpha wolf that offers him something -odd.In exchange for teaching him how to cook, Harry will babysit his son, AbrahamLouis really could use the help.
Wild And Unruly
by 100percentsassy
Harry is a cowboy sitting on the biggest oil reservoir in Wyoming, and Louis is the paralegal assigned to pressure him into selling his land.
got the sunshine on my shoulders
by hattalove
five years ago, harry styles left his tiny home town to make it big as a recording artist. he didn't have much regard for what he left behind - a life, a family, and a husband, who woke up one morning to find him gone.now, harry has everything he could possibly want: he's rich, famous, and adored by
Gods & Monsters
by Velvetoscar
The instructions were simple: seduce and destroy Harry Styles. Not once did they discuss the option of Louis actually falling in love. So, naturally, that's exactly what he did.
Love Is A Rebellious Bird
by 100percentsassy
AU in which the boys still make music. Louis is the concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra, Harry is the New! and Exciting! interim conductor/ex-cello prodigy who "has made Mozart cool again" according to Esquire Magazine (Louis hates him immediately, which is definitely why he internet sta
Influenced.
by zita17
When Louis Tomlinson goes to bed on New Year's Eve, he is *not* prepared to wake up to a job offer that's layered in more NDAs than he's ever seen courtesy of ZAYN, A-list pop star and Louis’ best friend Liam's celebrity crush. But what is Louis even less prepared for? Zayn's Very! Enthusiastic! Inf
baby honey
by ilove1dbro28
in which Louis' dad is too keen on getting him a job and accidentally totally ruins Louis' life with that, and Harry Styles is a fucking annoying, shit talking dickhead, too arrogant for being averagely talented and definitely not Louis' type.or, in which Louis' dad owns the Management Company that
Saints & Sinners – Or Whatever The Hell We Are
by girl_in_dirty_vans
"Louis booked a flight to Berlin to fuck Harry Styles. He should've booked an exorcist instead."Louis Tomlinson wakes up in Los Angeles alone, to a sunrise and a text from Harry Styles that simply reads:"i want you to get me pregnant."So he books a last-minute flight to Berlin, cancels his studio da
Hearing Damage
by sowakeme_up
“Sorry, I forgot to introduce you two,” the headmaster waved her hand. “Mr. Tomlinson, this is Harry Styles, our music grammar teacher and guidance counselor. And this is Louis Tomlinson, our new maestro.”Harry looked at Louis again and took two needed steps to stand in front of the man. He was shor
Even Statues Crumble If They're Made To Wait
by BoosBabycakes
Louis is an alpha by biology, though he is not like every other alpha out there. He has never fit in society's stereotyped made up box with his gentle personality and delicate physique, his differences always earning him looks of disdain or pity that he now has sadly learned to ignore. At thirty-yea
The Weight of Love
by CrypticFondness
Louis never planned on being a dad at sixteen, but when tragedy leaves Phoenix without anyone else, he chooses the little boy without hesitation — just as his own father once chose him.Between sixth form, part-time work, and learning how to parent a toddler, he’s barely keeping his head above water.
Palaces
by sparklyedxts
Two idiots. One scandal. Zero self-control. After being spotted arguing at a pub in the city ahead of big events, actor Louis Tomlinson and singer Harry Styles find themselves in a situation where being ‘best friends’ with each other is the only way out. Paste on a fake smile, go to each other’s eve
Lovers in the Forbidden Zone
by Saturn28Larry
Louis Tomlinson is the star quarterback of the university team. Too immature to see past his own ego and a life centered on sports in pursuit of glory.Harry Styles, a figure skater who captivates the audience with his grace and elegance on the ice, uses this sport as an escape from the life he faces
Boy In The Basement
by LadyRedStyles
If we could look at each other again, I wouldn't lose count of the tiny specks in your eye color. But now that there's no light… the sense of your unknown presence in the heavy basement air pulls anger and hatred from the very depths of this place into my being.And now, our existences blend once mor
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This list of 22epic One Direction fanfics spans 4,910,090 total words. Kudos range from 88 on the newest entries to 31,560 on the most established. 64% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (13 of 22 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Angst · Alternate Universe · Enemies to Lovers · Fluff and Smut · Mortal enemies with benefits.
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