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Top Sherlock BBC Fanfics

20 notable Sherlock BBC works from our AO3 database, ranked by kudos — with full stats, tags, and similar-fic recommendations for each.

Sherlock BBC fandom guide → 446k combined kudos 20 completed 1 over 100k words
1
The Internet Is Not Just For Porn

by cyerus · Johnlock

John is Sherlock's internet boyfriend - from CANADA.No one thinks he's real.

61k kudos 1,911 words General Audiences Complete
2
What Meets the Eye

by worldaccordingtofangirls · Johnlock

Amnesia is just another case to solve. Piece together unfamiliar faces, reconstruct the old identity, the lost reality. A challenge that Sherlock could even enjoy. He can read people like books. The man with the silver hair is his boss. The tottering old woman, his landlady. The girl with the worrie

39k kudos 8,249 words Mature Complete
3
and stand there at the edge of my affection

by coloredink · Johnlock

"You've written love letters," Sherlock asserted.(Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Slovak, and Hebrew translations available.)

31k kudos 2,683 words General Audiences Complete
4
Nature and Nurture

by earlgreytea68 · Johnlock

The British Government accidentally clones Sherlock Holmes. Which brings a baby to 221B Baker Street.

26k kudos 203,273 words Mature Complete
5
Acceptable Behaviour

by bbcatemysoul · Johnlock

Sherlock isn't really sure why John wants to shag him, but he's certain that if he's careful to behave properly about it, John can be persuaded to keep doing it.In other news, John is a good boyfriend and Sherlock is an idiot.(German translation available.)

23k kudos 3,449 words Mature Complete
6
A Terrific Soporific

by antietamfalls · Johnlock

Sherlock, a long-time sufferer of insomnia, is forced to share a bed with John at a hotel while on a case. To his astonishment, he finds that spending the night next to John helps him sleep and becomes determined to maneuver himself back into John's bed.

21k kudos 11,270 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete
7
The Real Meaning of Idioms

by feverishsea · Johnlock

After two weeks away, John finally texts Sherlock. He doesn't expect Sherlock to respond. He doesn't expect Sherlock to keep texting him. And he really doesn't expect things to spiral out of control so rapidly.

21k kudos 22,540 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete
8
Hitting the Water at Sixty Miles an Hour

by what_alchemy · Johnlock

“You love your mother, Sherlock?”John watched the muscles in Sherlock’s jaw jump. He nodded in one sharp jerk. “Then we’re going to her party and making her happy.” John let out a resigned sigh. “As a ruddy couple, you bastard.”

20k kudos 30,568 words Explicit Complete
9
Empathy

by Blind_Author · Johnlock

John is an empath. Which isn't nearly as much fun as it sounds. Most of the time, it’s not even useful.

19k kudos 35,739 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete
10
State of Flux

by Atiki · Johnlock

John’s marriage is over and he is finally back home (i.e. at Baker Street, where he belongs).Sherlock is awfully insecure and John is awfully hesitant, and they're both awkward idiots, of course, but they figure it out. Many First Times happen.

19k kudos 24,655 words Explicit Complete
11
The Detective and the Demon

by oreganotea · Johnlock

“Every demon on record is described as either monstrously terrifying or breathtakingly beautiful,” Sherlock says. “I have never heard of a demon with a forgettable face and a propensity for ugly jumpers.”The demon looks down at his jumper. Okay, so it might not be the most flattering article of clot

19k kudos 2,397 words General Audiences Complete
12
A Cure For Boredom

by emmagrant01 · Johnlock

They'd never talked about sex in the year they'd known each other. Well, that wasn't quite correct: Sherlock had never said a word about sex; John had bemoaned his personal dearth of it on many occasions.

18k kudos 81,665 words Explicit Complete
13
Alone On the Water

by Mad_Lori · Johnlock

Sherlock Holmes never expected to live a long life, but he never imagined that it would end like this.

18k kudos 7,725 words General Audiences Complete
14
they tell me their secrets (will you tell me yours too)

by etothepii · Johnlock

In Afghanistan, the supplies tell him when they're running low, and the cars always, always tell him when strangers have touched them, and John gets known as having a knack (paranoia, his men call it, but he's never missed a single car bomb) for keeping his men safe.

18k kudos 2,297 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete
15
He’s Not Paid Enough to Deal with This Shit

by janonny · Johnlock

One of the first things John did was to write up step-by-step instructions on how to conduct a proper job interview before handing it over to Mycroft for his perusal. There were no kidnapping, deserted car parks or stolen therapy notes anywhere on that list.(Or the one where John returned from the w

17k kudos 9,829 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete
16
you are a paradigm

by 1electricpirate · Johnlock

Sometimes, only sometimes, when Sherlock is very far away and absolutely guaranteed not to return for at least three hours, John sits on the sofa and lets the tea make itself. In which John is (reluctantly) a wizard, Mycroft is (apparently) omniscient, and Sherlock is (surprisingly) oblivious.

17k kudos 10,013 words Mature Complete
17
Left

by lifeonmars · Johnlock

John Watson is left-handed.He’s tried not to let it affect his life, but as any Lefty knows, that’s almost impossible.

15k kudos 45,153 words Mature Complete
18
The Progress of Sherlock Holmes

by ivyblossom · Johnlock

“I had,” he said, “come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.”-- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band

15k kudos 62,006 words Explicit Complete
19
Once More, With Feeling

by cellard00rs · Johnlock

To put off his meddlesome, matchmaking mother, John convinces Sherlock to play the role of his significant other. Unparalleled awkwardness ensues.

15k kudos 21,178 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete
20
Finding John

by orphan_account · Johnlock

Sherlock Holmes has met exactly twenty-four Johns in his life. They have all been the wrong John. He's getting tired of waiting, staring at the inscription on his finger and wondering when his John will turn up, if ever.

15k kudos 5,456 words Teen And Up Audiences Complete

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