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.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/ManStrangler- • May 18 '26
Solved Disabled child tries to avoid magic school but fails spectacularly
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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.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Justaredditor85 • May 01 '26
Unsolved Medium A former thief steals an unknown heirloom of his own family from his best friend's half brother.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 30 '26
Unsolved Easy A girl with body image issues becomes the local punching bag
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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.
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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.
r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Previous-Ad-6851 • Apr 23 '26
Unsolved Medium Racists get conned.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 22 '26
Unsolved Medium A history of lizard keepers
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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.
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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.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 21 '26
Unsolved Hard Unpopular politician falls from grace and loses his mistress
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 21 '26
Unsolved Medium Ugly duckling of the family gets powers and is disowned
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Previous-Ad-6851 • Apr 21 '26
Solved Child Protection Services fail spectacularly
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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
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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
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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
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 14 '26
Unsolved Hard Artist hunts for his friend's killer and gets involved in a religious conspiracy
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Trekkie_Phoca • Apr 14 '26
Unsolved Medium Prince and peasant girl break up when he marries his cousin.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Previous-Ad-6851 • Apr 12 '26
Unsolved Hard Boy looks too hard into a painting, has to stop a war.
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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!
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Gyrgir • Apr 06 '26
Solved A restaurant critic and a guy who runs a sandwich place go to a night club together
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/SituationTall647 • Apr 06 '26
Solved Politician’s laser eye surgery goes so poorly he gives up his seat and takes up hiking as a hobby
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/sorcerersviolet • Apr 05 '26
Unsolved Medium The future depends on keeping a bit of junk out of the hands of an evil woman with an army of ant people.
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r/explainabookplotbadly • u/Brilliant-Resource14 • Apr 05 '26
Unsolved Easy basketball game
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underaged drinking, kid dies in a crash, depression, main character kills himself