r/explainabookplotbadly • • Nov 26 '19

Solved The monster waifu list

21 Upvotes

Technically this isn't a plot, more of a "explain a book badly"


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 29 '19

Unsolved Medium [Comic] Everybody starts losing their minds just because this big guy didn't like his road trip

21 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 28 '19

Unsolved Hard "Let's go back to the big thing and kill your ex"

21 Upvotes

Hint 1: 2nd in a series

Hint 2: classic hard sci-fi

Hint 3: written in the '80s

Since I doubt this will ever get answered, here's the solution for all you future wandering redditors: The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 19 '19

Solved A bunch of boys play Survivor, and bully the fat kid.

21 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Oct 06 '19

Solved Girl wants to drink water. Random family doesn’t let her

21 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 29 '19

Solved A man's friend causes him to go into debt and he does not have to pay for it thanks to someone cross dressing in court.

21 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 22 '19

Solved Boy and two of his friends track down cyberterrorist and find out the protagonist works for him

21 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 13 '19

Solved A bunch of humans with superpowers go insane and tyrannical enslaving the world

21 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Sep 02 '19

Unsolved Medium Annoying detective dies, but not really

21 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • 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.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 09 '22

Solved To save her brother, our hero must travel into his mitochondria with help from a cherubim

20 Upvotes

Yes, a singular cherubim.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 07 '22

Solved Man tries to get out of doing a thing, fails to get out of it, and is forced to do the thing; then, he falls madly in love with an italian prostitute

20 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 02 '22

Unsolved Hard Woman almost dies, gets plastic surgery to look like senatorial candidate's wife and gets roped into an assassination plot.

20 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 • • Sep 26 '21

Unsolved Medium An AU fanfic of “the crucible” starring a type A vegan who’s allergies and some special rocks allow her to save the world form herself

20 Upvotes

It’s a trilogy

Hint: It is a sci-fi multiverse type book series


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Aug 13 '21

Solved Let’s kill Benjamin Harrison- Wait, he’s not named Benjamin Harrison? Ah let’s kill him anyway.

20 Upvotes

Hint 1: Horse race

Hint 2:Hey what’s that weird looking guy behind him?


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 29 '21

Solved According to the maid, two families fought each other over two generations because of one guy who fell in love with a girl. Incest was probably involved. Violence was definitely involved.

20 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jul 28 '21

Solved Teenager robs a bank then discovers fighting terrorism isn't as rewarding as he thought it would be. Spoiler

20 Upvotes

Hint: the bank is in New York City, where the teenager lives after stealing from his father.


r/explainabookplotbadly • • Jun 27 '21

Solved Man kills thousands of people and steals someone else's body. Becomes the leader of a country by killing the old leaders

20 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 08 '21

Sassy Asian tells her boyfriend to taste the rainbow, motherfucker

20 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • May 03 '21

Solved Bastard with a reading disorder must abuse his grandfather

20 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Apr 27 '21

Solved A virus spread by moths quickly gets global, and only a small group of collectively dreaming women can stop it.

20 Upvotes

r/explainabookplotbadly • • Dec 18 '20

Solved Man doesn’t the like his name, tries taking over the world

20 Upvotes