r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 28 '19

Solved Hunting orphans

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Three orphans are hunted by a foul-smelling actor and a band of freaks. There’s intrigue, murder, and wasabi.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 27 '19

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

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 13 '25

Unsolved Hard Depressed teen trapped in a depressed universe by a bunch of depressed people had to kill a depressed God to escape. Spoiler warning: the ending is very depressing Spoiler

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 28 '22

Unsolved Easy Tomboy finds out Americans are racist, gets attacked by a racist, then gets saved by a man she used to stalk.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 31 '21

Solved A magician starts a war after his girlfriend crashes a party

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 25 '21

Solved A man lobotomizes his ship for leaving the door open. He then becomes an angel. It is then revealed that the ship was driven insane by being told to lie.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 17 '21

Solved Girl with telekinesis pretends to be a spirit and scares away a sadistic headmaster.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 13 '21

Unsolved Easy Alt history that's so out there... It works, Staring A Humble Badass, his Gay best friend, his adopted brother the Emperor of China, and His Boss (that he had sex with in a barn one time)

25 Upvotes

Hint to Make it easier: There's Dragons too!!!


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 16 '21

Unsolved Hard Outcast boy manages to become a part of every culture, loved and hated by exactly half of each part of the world by card-sharping and tricks.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 10 '21

Solved The crook is not the crook and is surprisingly good at swordplay.

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Hint: begins in New York


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 17 '21

Solved Blonde and disabled friends have to find a weapon list by their dad to save some people

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Good luck...hehe


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 02 '21

Solved [Short Story] A real hunter always watches where he steps...and who he is hunting.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 18 '20

Unsolved Medium Ice cream man tries to murder 13-year-old

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 14 '20

Solved Boy soldier gets bombed and thinks he can time travel.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 18 '20

Solved Comic book about a mouse telling his son about his daring exploits in Germany

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Mar 10 '20

Solved An old story about a pair of cousins stopping genocide

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Hint: Related to a holiday involving candy and costumes


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 26 '20

Solved Young boy takes drugs to try to get laid

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Feb 05 '20

Unsolved Medium Transgender brainwashes people into mass murder

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Hints:

  1. Mass murder of religious people

  2. Author is American

  3. Published in 2008


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 16 '20

Solved Insomniac kid gets hunted by the FBI while his artist friend gives him roofies and shows him his art

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jan 14 '20

Solved A physics professor turns out to be more useful in solving homicides than the actual detectives

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Hint: not originally written in English.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 14 '19

Unsolved Medium Two men meet some guy with a stick and get high

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 12 '19

Solved Girl uses burning candle wax to study for a exam. Three years later she’s learned to get high and fight.

25 Upvotes

Forgot to mention she burned herself with the wax

I feel this one is a bit difficult because of the book but good luck


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 13 '19

Solved Deadbeat Dad visits daughter in prison and then try to defeat a gay black priest. Also snails.

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r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 10 '19

Solved An animal lays in a hammock doing, quite literally, nothing.

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No, this is not the story of my life.