🏷️ Identity
31 entries tagged with this trope
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi · 2020
When Vivek Oji is found dead, their family seeks answers about their child's secret life and identity. A powerful exploration of gender and sexuality in modern Nigeria.
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
Twin sisters from a small Southern Black community grow up to live very different lives. One passes as white. Their daughters meet as strangers. Identity, race, and the lies we tell ourselves.
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
Twin sisters from a small Black community grow up to live in opposite worlds — one passes as white, the other stays. Their daughters' lives collide decades later.
The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray · 2021
Belle da Costa Greene became J.P. Morgan's personal librarian and the most powerful woman in the art world. Her secret? She was a Black woman passing as white.
Translation State
Ann Leckie · 2023
Three intertwining stories about identity, diplomacy, and what it means to be a person. Leckie's universe remains one of sci-fi's best. Accessible even as a standalone.
Presque Toujours Pur
ShayaLonnie · 2016
Hermione discovers she's not who she thinks she is. Pureblood heritage, a betrothal contract, and Draco Malfoy. ShayaLonnie creates one of the most detailed worldbuilding fics in the fandom.
4 Minute Window
Speranza · 2015
Bucky keeps leaving Steve clues. Steve has exactly 4 minutes each time. A taut, propulsive story about reconnection under impossible circumstances. Speranza is a master.
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch · 2016
Jason is kidnapped and wakes up in a world where he made different choices. Now infinite versions of himself exist. And they all want his life back. Unputdownable.
Out of the Dead Land
emilyenrose · 2014
Bucky comes in from the cold — sort of. He's not quite the Winter Soldier and not quite Bucky Barnes. Steve doesn't care which one he is. Action-packed and deeply emotional.
Soft as an Unready Mind
BC_Brynn · 2018
Bucky's memories return in fragments. Some of Steve. Some of the Soldier. The question of which memories make a person is explored with quiet devastation.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab · 2020
Addie makes a deal to live forever, cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Then one day, a boy in a bookshop remembers her name. 300 years of loneliness in one devastating love story.
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch · 2016
Jason Dessen is kidnapped and wakes up in a world where he made different choices. But getting back to his real family means competing with infinite versions of himself.
The Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson · 2020
You can only visit parallel earths where the other version of you is dead. Cara is valuable because she's died in 372 worlds. But the one world she can't visit holds the secret to everything.
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine · 2019
Mahit arrives as ambassador to the Teixcalaan Empire. Her predecessor is dead. His memories are in her head — but corrupted. She must navigate imperial politics to save her home station.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. From a forbidden pregnancy in 1911 to the bright lights of 1989 Tokyo. Every page feels like holding someone's entire life in your hands.
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
Twin sisters from a small Southern town. One passes as white. One stays. Their daughters grow up worlds apart, not knowing the other exists. Identity, race, and the lies we build lives on.
Remain Nameless
HeyJude19 · 2020
Hermione works at the Ministry. Draco works there too, reinvented and trying to atone. The slow-burn office romance is exquisite — each chapter peels back another layer.
4 Minute Window
Speranza · 2015
Post-Winter Soldier. Bucky keeps leaving things for Steve. Clues, memories, pieces of himself. Steve follows. The cat-and-mouse of two super soldiers finding each other again.
United States v. Barnes, 617 F. Supp. 2d 143
fallingvoices & radiophile · 2014
Bucky Barnes goes on trial. Told through court transcripts, news coverage, and public reaction. Brilliant format, brilliant execution. Makes you feel like you're reading real documents.
Your Blue-Eyed Boys
Feather (lalaietha) · 2014
Bucky comes back in pieces. Steve helps him put himself together.
Ringer
Speranza · 2014
A post-Winter Soldier story about identity and whether home still exists.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. From a fishing village to postwar Osaka. History is the characters. The opening line: 'History has failed us, but no matter.'
Your Name on Every Wall
Speranza · 2014
Bucky tries to remember. Steve tries to let go. Neither succeeds. Short but devastating.
Smoke and Mirrors
AvatarFanatic · 2020
AU where Katara is a firebender raised in the Fire Nation. Everything you know is flipped. Fresh take on Zutara.
Out of the Dead Land
emilyenrose · 2014
Post-WS. Bucky shows up at Steve's door. He's not really Bucky yet. The road back to each other is long and beautiful.
A Desolation Called Peace
Arkady Martine · 2021
A fleet commander and a linguist must make first contact with an alien species. The sequel to A Memory Called Empire and somehow even better. Hugo winner.
Translation State
Ann Leckie · 2023
Three storylines converge around a treaty negotiation between humans and an inscrutable alien species. Classic Leckie: political, funny, and quietly profound.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Beginning in 1910 and sweeping across the century. This book will break your heart and put it back differently.
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner · 2021
Michelle Zauner loses her Korean mother and processes grief through food. As the frontwoman of Japanese Breakfast, she writes prose as beautiful as her music.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-joo · 2016
The story of an ordinary Korean woman, told as a clinical case study. The rage underneath the clinical prose is extraordinary. A feminist novel that sparked a national debate.
Ain't No Grave
spitandvinegar · 2012
Post-WS. Bucky is healing. Steve is beside him. The road back to selfhood is mapped in small moments and gas stations. One of the most beautiful Stucky fics.