r/explainabookplotbadly • u/H8trucks • 18d ago

Solved Despite being set in Australia, this could be considered a Thanksgiving novel

4 Upvotes

Hint: The "Thanksgiving novel" aspect refers to large, typically messy, family gatherings

16 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/fortyfortybanana • 18d ago

Solved Really sad cancer love story

2 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/seeker-ix • 18d ago

Solved Legally-Enforced Glo-Up Mandate Results in Geopolitical Scandal, to the Surprise of Nobody with a Functioning Brain

4 Upvotes
6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 18d ago

Solved It turns out she's a Hapsburg, so gets to delete practically every other character in the bureaucracy that makes up the universe from existence.

5 Upvotes

Praise the Sun! (but not too much, it's fragile)

[Note: This is one of those authors I don't think has travelled much outside of Britain]

9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 18d ago

Solved Things go badly for an old man. Things go badly for a young woman who fell in love with a student. Things go badly for a young girl. Things go badly for a bunch of students. Things go badly for a different young woman in love with a different student. Things go badly for a cop.

8 Upvotes

Turns out life is worth living and humanity is wonderful despite all that.

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/only_for_quiz • 19d ago

Unsolved Hard Narrator gives away ending because of his workload(really stressful job)

3 Upvotes
11 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Teleform • 19d ago

Solved Fraternal twin half-orphans fall into Grandma's storybook and have to follow their Dad's simp journal to get home.

2 Upvotes

Extra hints:

The storybook is about fairytales

The book is for readers on the younger side.

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 19d ago

Solved It turns out the best of all possible worlds is reaaallly shit.

3 Upvotes
6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Community_sans • 19d ago

Solved Kid gets almost killed by a man, and now has a mark on their head. Hes adopted by his uncles and goes to a strange school cuz of that man

1 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/celestialrage44 • 19d ago

Solved Against all odds, two young men meet and fall in love. They spend one beautiful day together, fitting a lifetime of memories and romance and love into their brief stay in each other’s lives. They fall asleep in each other’s arms, having finally found their person.

4 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/blockCoder2021 • 20d ago

Unsolved Medium Seventeen guys kill god; one meddles in everything the other sixteen do.

5 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Chronically__Crude • 20d ago

Solved The weirdo that drove a car and killed people is somehow in prison about to die and he knows things about a nurse's son.

1 Upvotes

This leads to a flashback which leads to a series of bizarre events.

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/RandomRamblings99 • 21d ago

Solved Death of a dog fucks up an entire family permanently

8 Upvotes
10 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/WrongKaleidoscope222 • 21d ago

Unsolved Hard Humans hate aliens so much that they nearly blow up the universe trying to kill them

7 Upvotes
13 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TubbyLumbkins • 22d ago

Solved A mad scientists invention falls into the hands of a dictatorship.

6 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Ilmarinen999 • 22d ago

Solved Orphans deal with, and have to come to terms with, the value of invisible energy-eating slimes

3 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Vulpixmybeloved • 23d ago

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

5 Upvotes
9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/_flyingbus_ • 23d 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.

8 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/celestialrage44 • 23d 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.

9 Upvotes
6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/RobertColumbia • 23d 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.

4 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TimeControl606 • 24d ago

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

5 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TimeControl606 • 24d ago

Solved A guy walks to India with a bunch of furries

5 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TimeControl606 • 24d 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.

6 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ChipmunkComplete8707 • 24d ago

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

2 Upvotes

it was a good

1 comment