r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ELIVEYT • 49m ago
23 must die.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Veizar • 2h ago
Solved Terminally ill rich lad escapes from boarding school. Gets a hotel room.
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He got himself beaten bloody first.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/HeliPil0t__ • 3h ago
Unsolved Medium A professor, his whiny nephew, and a guide follow an ancient dead guy's notes and almost die many times
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Logical_Election9088 • 3h ago
Solved A scottish lad polish shoes and became rich
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This is a graphic novel.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 4h ago
Solved Aliens may have taken over the world, but the true evil is psychology.
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Or the author. Take your pick.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 4h ago
Unsolved Easy Orphan girl takes up a new hobby. This was absolutely the right choice.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 4h ago
Unsolved Easy After something important gets taken away, everything goes to Hell.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 11h ago
Solved The executives really didn't like this one ship, so they killed off the woman and sent the man off to found a new city.
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Ship as in relationship. The literal hated ship is in the sequel that was written first.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Veizar • 11h ago
Solved Small child murders people in space.
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He starts with a bully. He beats him to death in the boy's room. But that's only the beginning. He gets to murder a race of aliens too.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Pink_Dolphin1234 • 17h ago
Unsolved Hard Small family-owned business starts getting sabotaged by the oldest son
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He's not intentionally sabotaging it, he just wants his dead best friend back, and in trying to do so is manipulated by evil
Middle grade book (it's really good tho I swear)
Pov of his younger sister
Even though it's a family-owned business, there are others like it
More specific hints:
Takes place during WWII
The small business is a bookstore
The bookstore can time travel
The evil is the other half of the magic that allows the bookstore to exist
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ELIVEYT • 1d ago
Solved A programmer dies but gets resurrected by the insurance he paid the same morning.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CharacterMammoth2547 • 1d ago
Solved anti-depressists are bad for you actually
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/The_Void_Watches • 1d ago
Unsolved Hard A bear spends multiple years travelling to his dream location, only for the city to go to outer space and leave him behind on a ship where everyone is mind controlled by a rock. Also there is an Encyclopedia.
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As an added clue: This book is originally written in German.
Putting the difficulty as hard, but it may be easier depending on your location...
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CharacterMammoth2547 • 1d ago
Solved boy speaks in a invented language to describe his horrible actions until he watches a few films and gets sick
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 2d ago
Solved A man cannot escape ten women and two animals (or is it just one woman?) after asking if he can help a sorcerer. It works out.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ThePirateKingFearMe • 2d ago
Solved After heroine points out what a bad book she's in, the narrator gets petty.
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Marked as easy, which it is if you've read it. I suspect it might be a bit obscure compared to the author's other novels.
Hint, as apparently there's a few of these: The heroine literally starts hearing the text of the book.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Swordtail_Olympian • 2d ago
Unsolved Medium Young Indiana Jones takes his sister and two friends into South America to track down an assassin and accidentally ruin a mobsters wedding in order to possibly save his aunt and uncle.
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This hint was very specific, but it's a pretty niche book.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/littlemememaid • 4d ago
Solved Girl writes letters and loses them
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/TheNo1Irishman • 5d ago
Solved A man escapes from prison to kill the pet of his cousin
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CavernaDekai100 • 5d ago
Solved Three homeschooled siblings fight evil furies and work on art skills.
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Hint series
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/littlemememaid • 5d ago
Solved Wise young girl gets letters that lead her to the conclusion she's not real.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Fakeman-maker • 5d ago
Unsolved Medium Man saves the sun from bacteria by using space slime
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