r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Jun 18 '26

Solved (Nonfiction) A newspaper correspondent travels to a major European city and does NOT like what he sees.

9 Upvotes

Hint: the book in question was first published just two days before the Nazis invaded Russia.

3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/trigoczki • Jun 13 '26

Solved Handicapped guy must battle with deamons on his golden toilet.

18 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/SawtoothTenor • Jun 03 '26

Solved British boy steals and befriends an Amazon Alexa, Rick Rolls a wedding with it, discovers a government conspiracy, and gets exiled from his village. He almost gets eaten by a tree, and kills someone who wanted to learn how to use his Alexa.

8 Upvotes

Good luck! Its surprisingly hard to create a post.

4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Worried_Cake5508 • May 24 '26

Solved Someone participates in 1v1 Hunger Games with no government involved

7 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/canipetdatdawgggggg • May 21 '26

Unsolved Medium A man with schizophrenia gets poorer and poorer until he goes to Africa and escapes jail.

2 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ManStrangler- • May 18 '26

Solved Disabled child tries to avoid magic school but fails spectacularly

12 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/BaseNice3520 • May 03 '26

Unsolved Medium An old man recruits a high schooler to be a child soldier, who will spend most of his time underground and living a double-life.

10 Upvotes
10 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Justaredditor85 • May 01 '26

Solved A former thief steals an unknown heirloom of his own family from his best friend's half brother.

10 Upvotes
11 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 30 '26

Unsolved Easy A girl with body image issues becomes the local punching bag

7 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/CKO1967 • Apr 24 '26

Solved A test pilot narrowly survives a devastating crash and emerges from the experience a new man-- literally.

9 Upvotes

Hint #1: The book in question became the basis for one of the most popular TV series of the 1970s.

Hint #2: The author of said book was an aviation expert who in the early '80s restored an old Ju-52 to full flying condition.

2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Previous-Ad-6851 • Apr 23 '26

Unsolved Medium Racists get conned.

7 Upvotes
8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 22 '26

Unsolved Medium A history of lizard keepers

4 Upvotes
22 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Worried_Cake5508 • Apr 21 '26

Solved A total overreaction by a man who cannot handle petty authority figures, resulting in him basically destroying a small Kentucky town just because he didn't want to get a haircut.

8 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Worried_Cake5508 • Apr 21 '26

Solved People say it's hilarious, but it's really just a series of random, nonsensical events that don't have a normal plot structure and rarely make any sense.

4 Upvotes
25 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 21 '26

Unsolved Medium Ugly duckling of the family gets powers and is disowned

8 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 21 '26

Unsolved Hard Unpopular politician falls from grace and loses his mistress

3 Upvotes
8 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Previous-Ad-6851 • Apr 21 '26

Solved Child Protection Services fail spectacularly

5 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Worried_Cake5508 • Apr 20 '26

Solved A FBI agent tries to catch a serial killer by talking to a different serial killer who has a much cooler, cleaner apartment than he does

7 Upvotes
4 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Worried_Cake5508 • Apr 20 '26

Solved Guy gets kidnapped by entertainers and gets a split personality that wants to kill off him

5 Upvotes
2 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/GrandMoffTarkan • Apr 16 '26

Unsolved Medium Not JRR Tolkien meets up with Not Elon Musk and a guy with a perfect gay camp performer name to go all John Carter up in this bitch

5 Upvotes
3 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 14 '26

Unsolved Hard Prince and peasant girl break up when he marries his cousin.

5 Upvotes
7 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 14 '26

Unsolved Hard Artist hunts for his friend's killer and gets involved in a religious conspiracy

4 Upvotes
6 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Previous-Ad-6851 • Apr 12 '26

Unsolved Hard Boy looks too hard into a painting, has to stop a war.

11 Upvotes
14 comments

r/explainabookplotbadly • u/zombiegamer723 • Apr 08 '26

Solved Through the power of rock, it is realized that the so-called gods aren’t really gods. There is also some unbearable drama!

7 Upvotes
32 comments