For all those new to the fanfiction scene, below is a list of stories that are considered to be of high quality and “must reads” to start you off on your journey through the wonderful land of fanfiction.

The list is broken up into the relevant categories, and then further broken up into groups depending on whether the story has been completed, in the process of being written (and the frequency of updates/last time updated), or just oneshots.

I would like to point out three things about the following list of stories.

1. All stories below are there because we think they are of high quality and are ones you should definitely check out. Regardless of how old the story is or how frequently the story is updated; they’re all good stories, so don’t just skip over all the stories that aren’t frequently updated, because I promise that you will be missing out on an amazing story. We wouldn't have listed the story if it wasn't.
2. Several of the stories have a strike through them. This means that at the current time the story is unavailable to be read, but will be up again at some point.
3. Whilst the list below is quite extensive, that does not mean that it contains every single high quality, “must read” story out there. You might find that you favour different writing styles to the ones listed below, in which case I’d suggest that the best way to find other stories you might like is to check out the favourite authors and stories listed by the authors that you do like. There are other ways of finding good stories, so don’t think that just because the story isn’t listed below, that it isn’t a good story.
4. Some of the stories that were previously listed in the opening post (OP) have been deleted because they no longer existed on the server they had been posted on, or led to an inconclusive place (i.e. FanFiction.Net deleted the story, it led to a locked LiveJournal page, so on and so forth). No offense is made to be taken from the deletion. If you remember a story that was previously listed and have seen posted it elsewhere, share it with the thread, and further steps can be taken from there.

But enough with that, happy reading everyone! Hope to see you all dropping by with comments about your favourite stories soon!

High School Musical (Troy Bolton/Gabriella Montez):

Completed:

• Once & Again - All The Right Moves - Slips & Tangles - All are rated M
• Out of Our Control
• The Wedding Planner
• Chemicals React
• Both Hands
• Police Tape
• Series of Steps
• Searching for What was Missing - Here's To Right Now - Even Now
• Sunsets & Swelling Hearts
• Convincing You To Fall
• The Girl Next Door by Jule (~Jewel~)
• Comprehend
• Insatiable - Rated M
• One Step At A Time
• All At Once
• Rocker Dude
• My Musical Girl
• If Only for a Moment by Jule (~Jewel~)
• Halfway To Enough
• Can't Just be Friends by Kelly (Time4Love)
• More Than One
• Never in my Wildest Dreams by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• Battle of the Sexes - Rated M
• Just One Night
• Masked Affection
• Don't Stop The Feeling by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• With Love
• Who Knew?
• Just a Click Away
• Best of Me
• Thursday, Prestige by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• Dancing Changes You
• Deep
• Distractions - Rated M
• Finding Love - Rated M
• Crash Into You by Kelli (MineyMouse14)
• Soulmates
• It Was More Than a Letter by Lo (L0velie)
• Never Let Go by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• A First For Everything
• Home Sweet Home
• Army Wives
• Ghost of a Good Thing by Michie (Michelle.) - Rated M
• It's Not Over - Rated M
• Engaged Desire by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• Collide by Michie (Michelle.) - Rated M
• All I'll Ever Ask - Rated M
• Unexpected - Rated M
• The Someday Triology: Once Upon a Time by Dani (pandora147) - Rated M
• A Pinkie Promise
• Life In a Glass House by Kelli (MineyMouse14)
• Forgetting to Love by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• Broken by Holly (hollybaggins)
• Homecoming - Rated M
• Think Twice - Rated M
• Everything
• Living the Dream by Lynn (didumissmeofcourseudid) - Rated M
• Time Changes Everything by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• Melting the Ice
• All I Want cowritten by Stace (Stace29), Corri (firefly24) and Rin (Rin.)
• Inevitable by Kate (kat1estone)
• The Moments That Count
• Cat and Mouse
• We Said Always by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• We Love Pretending
• Since Kindergarten by Andryya
• Follow Through
• I'll Email You
• All of the Above
• Your Anything
• Seven Wonders
• Oasis - Rated M
• Lightning Only Strikes Once by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• Down The Aisle, sequel to We Love Pretending
• What I Love About You
• Meant to Live - Rated M
• With My Life by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• Fate Works in Strange Ways
• The Distance Between Us
• Parallel Currents by Van (~Van~)
• Love, Hate, Hope - Rated M
• Mrs Someone - Rated M
• You're Mine Forever - Rated M
• Broken Dream - Rated M
• HSM2 and a Half - Rated M
• Back in the Day
• G Force by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• Saving Gabriella
• Nights Like These
• Inadvertent Target by Kate (kat1estone) - Rated M
• A Different Affair – Rated M

Work In Progress/Incomplete:

Last updated over 12 months ago:

• Take Me, Baby, or Leave Me
• Burgers, Brats and Boomerangs
• Concocting Chemistry
• The Bolton's Must Die
• It’s In The Genes
• In True Wildcat Fashion
• Two Hearts, One Status Quo
• Just The Little Things by Clara (clara4ever)
• Shattered Perfection
• Out of My Element, the sequel to Chemicals React
• Falling Through Time
• Friday Night Lights
• Accepting the Inevitable
• Be Who We Are
• She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
• Burning
• It's Always the Quiet Ones
• Open Your Eyes by Sophia (*~Sophia~*)
• Back to You
• Stolen
• A Dream When I'm Not Sleeping by Holly (hollybaggins) - Rated M
• From Me To You
• When The Stars Go Blue by Rachel (sapphires)
• Trust Your Opposite - Rated M

Last updated over 6 months ago:

• Crash Reality Check
• ...Because I Want You by Anne (Anneris) - Rated M
• How Sweet It Is
• Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking by Kelli (MineyMouse14)
• Live and Let Spy cowritten by Holly (hollybaggins)
• The Mad Season - Rated M
• In Your Eyes - Rated M
• Just Like a Tonne of Bricks by Holly (hollybaggins)
• My Best Friend’s Hot! cowritten by Kylie (TwinkletoeSuperstar) - Rated M
• Only In My Dreams - Rated M

Usually updated within 3-6 months:

• East High Story
• Intensity
• Use My Shoulder by Lo (L0velie)
• Emotions Unaccounted For
• Diary of a Nerd
• A Picture Tells a Thousand Words
• You, Me and the Stars
• In the Air
• White Oleander - Rated M
• Dapples with Daddy
• Chosen - by Dani (pandora147) - Rated M
• Like Brother and Sister
• Between The Lines
• White Horse
• Tis the Season
• Rushes
• Succumb by Jordyn (Jordyn1234567) - Rated M
• A Moment of Madness by Lynn (didumissmeofcourseudid) - Rated M
• Lifetime Piling Up, the sequel to Life In a Glass House by Kelli (MineyMouse14)
• Free for Life - Rated M

Usually updated within 3 months:

• Dangerous Fascination - Rated M
• Between the Lines by Jill (Fearlessღ) - Rated M
• My Guys
• Love Never Ends
• Brief Encounter by Lynn (didumissmeofcourseudid) - Rated M
• Star Crossed by Holly (hollybaggins)
• Body Flow by Stace (Stace29) – Rated M
• Disguised Affection cowritten by Corri (firefly24) - Rated M
• Currents
• Open for Business by Lynn (didumissmeofcourseudid) - Rated M
• More Than Passion by Mich (veganation) - Rated M
• Living the Dream - Rated M
• The Date Doctor
• Feel This
• Not As Planned by Liisa (RCarros)
• Trading Letters for Desire cowritten by Corri (firefly24)
• You're Stuck With Me - Rated M
• Kismet by Kylie (TwinkletoeSuperstar) - Rated M
• When Love & Hate Collide - Rated M
• Like Catching Lightning by Nel (Nelmichelle xo)
• Like Lightning - Rated M
• At the Edge of a Petal
• Dynamite Kid and the Green Butterfly
• Thank That Star, continuation of Broken by Holly (hollybaggins)
• Running to a Stand Still by Michie (Michelle.) - Rated M
• This Moment, part of The Someday Triology by Dani (pandora147) - Rated M
• Missing Pieces - continuation of Collide, by Michie (Michelle.) - Rated M
• All You Need is Love - Rated M
• This Is Your Life by Kait (kebarrera)
• Flashover – Rated M
• Can’t Be More Than This
• Finding Your Way Back Home
• Every Man for Himself by Jordyn (Jordyn1234567) - Rated M
• New Beginnings by Andryya
• Secret Service
• I Know What It's Like - Rated M
• Murphy's Law
• Just Friends by Nikki (LAchick) - Rated M
• An Apple A Day by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• It's Always Been You by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• Inevitably Lovable by Corrie (ReachForThemStars)
• Famously in Love
• Heart of the Matter
• In Pieces by Jordyn (Jordyn1234567) - Rated M
• The World As We Know It, the sequel to Meant to Live
• The Last Shot
• Missing Pieces
• Fall Like Shooting Stars by Heat (heat.)
• The Definition of Us by Van (~Van~)
• Dreams or Desire
• Protecting Fate by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• The Gin Mill
• Our Sweet Decline
• You Make Me Feel So Young, series of related oneshots
• Inked - Rated M
• Oh, Kelsi
• Snowing Heart Flakes – Rated M
• Mirror for the Sun by Stace (Stace29) – Rated M
• Let The Best Man Win – Rated M
• Between You & Me by Van (~Van~) - Rated M
• Narrative Attraction – Rated M
• Raindrops on Roses, a series of related drabbles by Nel (Nelmichelle xo)
• I’ll Be There For You, sequel to Seven Wonders
• With Me Through Adversity
• Tumbling Etceteras, the sequel to Inevitable by Kate (kat1estone)
• Dirty Dancing
• NLT2: A New Beginning, a sequel to Nights Like These
• The_Perfect_Guy
• The Beginning of Forever, a series of oneshots that prequel All The Kings Horses by Marianne (sunnycouger)

Oneshots:

• Romance Challenge HSM Style
• Until Death Do Us Part
• Creating Space Between Us
• Old Tricks, New Intentions
• The Perfect Gift
• A Wink Satisfies Me
• A Christmas Story
• The Kissing Booth
• An Impromptu Midnight Meeting
• One Big Heart
• A Flower For Your Troubles
• All Things Come to an End
• Firsts - Series of oneshots
• Personal Space
• By Moonlight
• Kaleidoscope of Contradictions, a series of one-shots occurring between the stories Chemicals React and Out of My Element
• Let the Rain
• The Bet
• Caesar's Brutus
• Fingers Intertwined - Series of one-shots
• Uncomfortable
• There You'll Be
• Pros and Cons
• Gate C24
• What Happened to Us?
• Rush - Series of oneshots
• Three Little Words
• Unfortunate Sighting
• Talk is Anything but Cheap - Series of oneshots
• The Edification of Troy Bolton
• The Way It Should Be - Never Felt More Complete
• The Little Things
• Interludes - Series of M rated oneshots
• The Spice of Life - Rated M
• Library Love
• Bleeding Love
• The Anniversary Gift
• We Weren't Crazy
• Please Say
• Unexpected
• You Are the Pants in Me
• Shooting for the Stars cowritten by Holly (hollybaggins) - Rated M
• His Dream Girl by Liisa (RCarros)
• The Horizontal Movie Mambo - Rated M
• Can't Buy Me Love
• Blister - Rated M
• Blame it on the hormones - Rated M
• Challenge Accepted
• The Zipper - Rated M
• Confessions
• Sneak Out
• M&M’s
• Authentic Corporeal Real by Dani (pandora147)
• Between The Lines
• Little Details
• The Shirt Thief
• Reunion
• 2:47 AM
• Of Diamond Rings and Three Letter Words - Series of one-shots
• Eighteen Days
• In Uniform by Stace (Stace29) - Rated M
• Greatest Gift of All by Kylie (TwinkletoeSuperstar)
• Equifinality by Dani (pandora147)
• Gift from an Angel by Lynn (didumissmeofcourseudid) - Rated M
• Should've Said - Rated M
• Beautiful
• Somebody
• Nightmares
• Definitely Him
• Taken Room
• All The Kings Horses by Marianne (sunnycouger)
• Laundry Day - Rated M
• Beyond My Control by Dani (pandora147) - Rated M
• Unforgettable
• Texting
• You and Me
• Asphyxiation by Marianne (sunnycouger)
• To Be Oh So Officially Official by Holly (hollybaggins)

Completed:

• Back Where We Belong by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• Coming Undone by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• Feels Like Love by Jill (Fearlessღ)
• No Mercy by Jill (Fearlessღ)
• Accidentally in Like by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• An Adventure by Nikka (bokayjunkie)

Work In Progress/Incomplete:

Last updated over 12 months ago:

• The Parent Trap

Usually updated within 3-6 months:

• Notice Me

Oneshots:

• Someday Soon - Someday is Today
• Only Option
• Math Just Got Exciting
• Addicted to You
• His Corrie
• So Sweet by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• A Night to Remember by Nikka (bokayjunkie)

Completed:

• The Only Reason by Jill (Fearlessღ) - Rated M
• 24
• A Lifetime of Love - Rated M
• More than Words by Kate (kat1estone) - Rated M

Work In Progress/Incomplete:

Last updated over 6 months ago:

• So Jessica Alba Fantastic by Jill (Fearlessღ)
• Puppy Love No More - Rated M
• Coping with the Unexpected by Anne (Anneris)
• I Feel Sparks by Holly (hollybaggins)

Usually updated within 3 months:

• Always Together by Nikki (LAchick) - Rated M
• To Be With You by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• Falling Into You, a series of connected oneshots chronicling Zac and Vanessa's relationship by Kate (kat1estone) - Rated M
• Memory Loss
• Going Back - Rated M

Oneshots:

• The Completely Dull and Uneventful Life Of by Holly (hollybaggins)
• Don't Forget My Slippers
• All Jazzed Up
• Shades of Success by Michie (Michelle.)
• The Real Deal by Michie (Michelle.)
• Scenes from a Marriage by Michie (Michelle.)
• How Palm Springs Changed its Name by Cris (crisTM) - Rated M
• He Shoots, She Scores! by Cris (crisTM) - Rated M
• If That's Ok With You by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• Another 3 + Forever by Taylor (Its_Tay37
• Forever With You
• Once upon a Dream by Kate (kat1estone)
• I Know Him!
• An Efron Christmas