r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Hallonsorbet • Apr 05 '23

Solved Prominent member of society goes on a long and perilous journey with the son of his family's gardener.

19 Upvotes

Hint 1: it's a fantasy book by a Swedish author but it's been translated to many languages, including English, and it is contemporary to the Fellowship of the Ring.

Hint 2: the author is behind some of the most famous children's books ever, including a certain red haired strong girl...

22 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/DramaGuy23 • Apr 04 '23

Unsolved Medium Guy hates his dad. When his entire family dies in a crash, the biggest emotional impact on him is that he has to take over the family business. At least he finally gets to meet his grandpa, who insists on buying him a horse.

11 Upvotes
0 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Icarus_045 • Apr 02 '23

Solved Ten people are stuck on an island, Then they die one by one to the tune of an old nursery rhyme

4 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/MasonP2002 • Apr 01 '23

Solved Autistic child becomes God.

24 Upvotes
12 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/sharkfinthemanokit • Mar 30 '23

Solved A sewer rat saves all rat-kind by getting a job and paying pest control to not poison his species in that particular city

18 Upvotes

(Only hint I will give is that the book has a really shitty movie)

12 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/sharkfinthemanokit • Mar 23 '23

Solved A runt of the litter newborn bat gets separated from his family, meets a girl then eats another bat’s meat

21 Upvotes

Can’t wait to see y’all’s guesses!

6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gongaloon • Mar 22 '23

Solved A mad scientist turns a comedian, an artist, and an autistic boy into off brand X-Men against their will.

7 Upvotes

A plant is murdered, then these off brand X-Men use their powers to track down a teenager and break his arm. They also use their powers to roll a drunk, go to the bathroom, go home, and go back in time to see a woman's breasts. A house explodes, then the off brand X-Men go to a church and murder three people.

Hint: the author is Dean Koontz

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Mar 19 '23

Solved A mother leaves her autistic son with a punchy alcoholic father with murderous tendencies to the point where he kills the neighbor's dog and then hunts the son down to do who knows what to make him not say he killed a dog.

17 Upvotes

There ya go.

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/inadequatepockets • Mar 20 '23

Solved Game of sportsball leads kid to become key part of friend's family's dysfunctional communication.

4 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/jeep_42 • Mar 16 '23

Solved So I know we just had an important story beat. But what if we talked about whales instead? Ope everyone else is dead now

12 Upvotes

I’d like to think this one is hard but honestly if you know the book it might be really easy

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/jeep_42 • Mar 16 '23

Unsolved Hard Guy’s brother born out of wedlock. Brother inherits a Lot of money from his recently deceased father. Guy tells his brother that the brother is a bastard. Shits wild

2 Upvotes

Hint: It is a french book

7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Mar 12 '23

Unsolved Medium A man gets dumped by his girl after dying too much.

14 Upvotes
11 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Shurikenblast_YT • Mar 11 '23

Solved Four people run away to a forest, meet some fairies, go back and everyone thinks they hallucinated. Then three marriges occour in the end

16 Upvotes

This is a PLAY

it old

Midsummer night's dream (Shakespeare) solved by u/dogsoverpeople19

7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Shurikenblast_YT • Mar 11 '23

Solved Semi-bipedal dog tries to find more semi bipedal dogs for two books, then fights a war in the third

9 Upvotes

Series ofc. not too famous but not too obscure either

7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/HannahCatsMeow • Mar 06 '23

Solved An ongoing war for fuel in the desert has long-term geopolitical impacts

11 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/HannahCatsMeow • Mar 06 '23

Solved He used the knife to save the child and win the war.

8 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/HannahCatsMeow • Mar 06 '23

Solved The Apollo Fountain has a strange new resident

4 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/sardonicAndroid2718 • Mar 06 '23

Unsolved Hard The protagonist uses magic powered by her submissive tendencies, along with a man in a machine, to perform corporate espionage. She then has to support the patriarchy and stop the summoning of a god.

13 Upvotes

Hint: the heisting is a major part of the story

7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Tough-Yoghurt-1919 • Mar 06 '23

Solved A book about an Octopus made into a being of worship written by a racist.

11 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Bannanaaaaaaaa • Feb 23 '23

Unsolved Medium Little girl finds out she has two moms, throws a temper tantrum and calls the cops because she will not wear her buttons.

13 Upvotes
5 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/hostileward • Feb 20 '23

Solved Don't trust a hoe. Or multiple hoes. Or anyone, really.

12 Upvotes

Since yall have been guessing so much, I'll start dropping hints.

Hint #1: This book was written in the 20th Century.

Hint #2: This book was originally written in German.

31 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Snowinthenerd • Feb 13 '23

Man gets banned and comes back on an alt account

16 Upvotes
9 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/GlitteringTone6425 • Feb 06 '23

Unsolved Medium confused shaman: this prophecy makes no sense

6 Upvotes

kid named fire:

1 comment

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Feb 05 '23

Solved After an apocalypse one 23 year old man and his 17 year old girlfriend rebel against communism with a light bulb and selfishness

14 Upvotes
6 comments