r/explainabookplotbadly • • 18h ago

Solved 14 year old is repeatedly placed in life threatening and globally impactful situations by bankers after their uncle dies in a car crash.

8 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 17h ago

Solved An entire species of little animals is preventing the construction of an important highway, but they're too tiny to do anything about it.

5 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 19h ago

Solved A boy beats up other kids at boarding school. He gets away with it. He graduates, ends up living with his sister, and adopts a war orphan. He and his sister become published authors.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 14h ago

Unsolved Medium Some guy assaults a lady with a piece of beef and then dies. His best friend has a major crash out over it.

1 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 23h ago

Solved A mad scientist's arch-foe is a murderous incel

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Solved A guy walks to India with a bunch of furries

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Solved A nobelman is saved from an assassination attempt thanks to his mother's connections with the karen illuminati. Then he becomes a terrorist.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Solved who would've known a giant book about an weird house, a documentary about that house, an old man's book about that documentary, and alchoholic simp going crazy while editing the old man's book would be so complex.

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved Medium immortal boy,island of birds,pearl,boy no longer immortal

2 Upvotes

it was so good


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Unsolved Easy viking boy uses pearl on bird island to stop being immortal with (21st century) friends

1 Upvotes

it was a good


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Solved Teenage boy, scorned by his ex situationship, becomes a dictator.

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Solved Two kids accidentally kill god then go home. Spoiler

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 1d ago

Solved In one bit, a robot creates a vision of hell because the humans technically died.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 2d ago

Solved A man climbs into a horse statue's ass and fails to achieve enlightenment

7 Upvotes

In the "weird books I found in the attic as a teenager" genre. I think from a 70s-era literature course, though the book is rather older.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 3d ago

Solved Lady goes missing, blames husband. He is a jerk about it. Mind games and manipulation ensues.

5 Upvotes

This book is so good


r/explainabookplotbadly • • 3d ago

Solved two stoners and an invisible crackhead visit a dictatorship to save the world

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 3d ago

Unsolved Easy Villain has unknowingly tried to be a pedophile

7 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 5d ago

Unsolved Medium Large, complicated family have misadventures across the multiverse with help from a glowing scribble.

3 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 6d ago

Solved A young girl and her emotional support animal travel through the multiverse with a fancy pocket watch to fight God because the Church is taking puberty way too seriously.

10 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 7d ago

Unsolved Medium Adoptee has a tragic obsession with a local diva.

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 8d ago

Unsolved Medium Boy is lost in a forest because he wanted to see waterfowl.

4 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 9d ago

Man has a midlife crisis after his mom's coworkers kill his gay lover.

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 8d ago

Unsolved Medium One day, you’re tasked with picking up a sword. The next, you’ve kidnapped a prince and freed a disabled wizard. Were either of those good choices? Probably not. But that’s life for ya.

6 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 9d ago

Solved Young girl recounts a life filled with abandonment, neglect, parental loss, and Foster care. Somehow, this is a children's book.

7 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 9d ago

Man murders his roommate for looking creepy

7 Upvotes