Looking for recommendations

[derien]

I've got a guy at work who might be interested in reading some slash, though he hasn't given me any idea if he likes any particular fandoms, so I'm trying to compile a few things which I think one doesn't need a fandom background to understand.  I'm tossing myself out there into the abyss and offering "Absence of Madeline," and I've also suggested "A Walk In The Karakorum" and mizzmarvel's "Blue." 

Maybe you have some recommendations you'd like to share?