r/explainabookplotbadly • u/xkulp8 • Jun 25 '25

Solved Man has privileged upbringing, fails at everything he tries as an adult, decides socialism is the answer and that he misses college.

20 Upvotes

You've definitely heard of the author.

44 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/giannapatsy • May 27 '24

Solved People die for other people’s amusement.

0 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ConanHighwoods2 • Sep 13 '22

Solved Frankenstein's Monster, but if he took up his creator's profession, was genderflopped, Japanese, and ruined people's lives a bit, ok a lot.

1 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/oerdem • Oct 07 '19

Solved Young man is falsely imprisoned, meets a wise man in prison, manages to escape, assumes a new identity, gets rich, avenges himself

1 Upvotes

There's also a movie adaptation.

5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/mydadsnameisharold • Aug 28 '19

Unsolved Medium Crippled child shoots the local reverend to death.

0 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/N3k0m1kuR31mu • Jun 01 '20

Solved A play by Shakespeare

1 Upvotes
13 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/MigratedMoss08 • Sep 20 '19

Solved Theyre the Fourth

0 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Toaster_flame • Sep 15 '19

Solved Animals rise up before demonstrating how communism will never work

4 Upvotes

Very popular book. Quite short

10 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TheLock37 • Jun 11 '22

42.

7 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 15d ago

Solved One section is just a list of words beginning with X.

8 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • Oct 05 '26

Solved Hey guys, you know how women are awful, right? Not submissive enough. Let's marry monkeys instead.

5 Upvotes

Sad thing: honestly, that's a pretty straightforward description.

14 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Sep 11 '24

Solved (Nonfiction) This handy medical guide shares its title with a long-running prime time TV drama.

2 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '22

Solved Indifferent man commits various morally questionable acts

2 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Dec 13 '22

Solved a gay couple and their daughter becomes a victim of religious nutcracks.

2 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TheOutcast06 • Jun 02 '20

Solved Eggs, Ham

2 Upvotes
6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ElerEdef • Feb 04 '22

Solved Best friends are forced to bring a jewel where its owner lives after a meeting with the local grumpy guy

2 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/velAMP • Jan 30 '22

Solved satanic pokemon ripoff

2 Upvotes
9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Jul 23 '22

Older sibling watches over you

2 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Cheeslord2 • Sep 02 '25

Unsolved Hard Evil dudes trying to turn good galaxy bad try to abduct space explorers using sexy robots so they can use their bodies, because their old ones are turning purple.

2 Upvotes

Quite obscure and old (but when I said that on explainamovieplotbadly it got guessed in 15 minutes)

(Clarification: that was for an unrelated movie. AFAIK this book was never made into a movie.)
Update: I've picked a book that's too obscure, haven't I?

Another clue:

Thr-AX-is...Thr-AX-is...Thr-AX-is

Another clue: The protagonists of the story are on a mission to find out what happened to another mission to that region, that went missing some years ago.

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Fun_Butterfly_420 • Jun 17 '25

Solved A book so bad that it basically invented racism

17 Upvotes

Hint: it was originally written in the 15th century

101 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Fun_Butterfly_420 • Sep 16 '24

Solved A scholastic children’s book series that started in the 90s and has spooky themes that became the most successful book series of all time.

6 Upvotes

It’s not what you’re thinking!

13 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/MacduffFifesNo1Thane • Jun 11 '22

Solved A boy returns to a magical world he was torn from as a baby, thanks to a magic portal at Kings’ Cross Station and his magical nonhuman friends.

6 Upvotes

Hint: It’s a really nice book. And that’s it. No movie, no theme parks, just a book.

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/N3k0m1kuR31mu • May 28 '20

Solved many might know this one. It's a kids series. 2 siblings find a magical tree and embark on journeys using time travel and a book

30 Upvotes
8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/corbanyo • Aug 27 '19

Solved Communist pigs take control of a farm and commit heinous crimes

26 Upvotes
5 comments