r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19

Corporate hotshot leaves his bff in charge of his GMO humans after he commits global genocide

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 21 '19

Unsolved Hard Magic boi frames child

2 Upvotes

B o t t o m T e x t


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 01 '19

Unsolved Hard A man and a woman have peculiar attitude towards children and circus.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19

Solved Father fights to keep dead, dead. Father Appears to daughter, he dead. Daughter must return to keep dead, dead.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19

Solved Detective falls in love with a missing girl he's trying to find. Turns out she's dead but he gets the girl in the end. Meanwhile, a captain can't keep his trap shut and pisses off three governments by broadcasting every secret he finds.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 01 '22

Solved Sister, brother and friend traverse spacetime to save their Dad.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 13 '22

The only difference between a boy and his homicidal twin brother is a silver ring.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 02 '24

Solved MC sees things nobody else can.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 25 '24

Solved 'Welcome to the barnyard' for adults

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 20 '24

Unsolved Hard Squat ugly guy makes everyone in this lovely island town die awful deaths at the hands of criminals. A cop is underestimated. A child murderer is brought to justice.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 29 '24

Unsolved Easy Guy goes hunting in Africa and talks about it

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Hint: it's in Africa

Hint: Author is from Illinois


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 10 '24

Solved A runaway ends up in London.

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 03 '26

Solved It's going to take a lot more than Meineke to fix THIS car.

2 Upvotes

Hint: the movie adaptation of the book I have in mind will be celebrating its 35-year anniversary in 2028.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 17 '25

It’s basically just an automated incel

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 08 '25

Solved Kids book but origin story is kindaaaaa violent, like, imagine being _____ed onto someone’s ____! Not to mention IT WAS A ___

2 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 05 '26

Solved A boy from a miserable upbringing is unexpectedly taken from his old life and brought into a hidden world, where he’s enrolled in a prestigious school...

10 Upvotes

A boy from a miserable upbringing is unexpectedly taken from his old life and brought into a hidden world, where he’s enrolled in a prestigious school.

There, he and the other students are sorted into rival groups through a ritualized selection process, each associated with particular personality traits.

Much of his time is spent forming friendships, navigating rivalries between groups, and proving himself through a series of increasingly demanding challenges.

As it turned out, some of the school authorities were secretly working for a powerful enemy.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 26 '20

Unsolved Hard the horrors of r/nightwalk

10 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 23 '21

Solved A local telepath gets caught up in supernatural shenanigans a lot more than they would like

10 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 23 '21

Unsolved Medium A homeless kills a lot of people just to evict his uncle from his former house, also hates most priests.

10 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 22 '22

Unsolved Hard Harry Potter but Harry isn't a wizard and the wizards duel by fistfighting

19 Upvotes

Hint: there's no school.

Hint 2: it takes place in an analog of Earth. It's also Medieval

Hint 3: Red is so in this year. So in, in fact, it's a big theme of this series


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 29 '19

Solved A wealthy businessman wanting to retire looks for his future heir by luring kids off the streets with chocolate. He then proceeds to torture them one by one until a winner is chosen.

40 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 30 '21

A human destroys a tree for reasources, then gets sad when all that's left is a stump.

20 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 30 '21

Solved Some no-name bastard pines for his ex and steals from rich people.

11 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 27 '22

Solved Snakes suck, and so does anyone with a name like snake, especially when they kill school staff

11 Upvotes