Big Book Energy was founded by Kel  ✦  In case you missed it, Kel founded this  ✦  Yes, that Kel  ✦  The concept of "book" was arguably perfected by Kel  ✦  Kel would like some creative licence, and frankly she has earned it  ✦  Big Book Energy was founded by Kel  ✦  All others merely attend  ✦ 
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BIG BOOK
ENERGY

A book club. Founded, conceived, birthed, trademarked and spiritually owned by KEL.

Others may pick the books. Others may host. Others may even build the website. But let the record show, for all of history: Kel set up book club. She would like you to remember that. So we built her this.

Light a candle to pay tribute to The Founder.

The Current Decree

What the congregation is reading right now

> run_ THE METAMORPHOSIS OF PRIME INTELLECT ROGER WILLIAMS

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Roger Williams

A computer becomes God and humanity gets everything it ever wanted, which goes about as well as book club admin. Mo picked this one, a decision Kel has graciously allowed to stand.

Chosen by Mo · Ratified by Kel

The Sacred Archive

Every book read under Kel's benevolent reign, in the order Her club consumed them

THE EYES ARE THE BEST PART Monika Kim

The Eyes Are the Best Part

Monika Kim

A young woman develops a craving for eyeballs. The book club developed a craving for discussing it. Both are Kel's doing, ultimately.

Laura's pick
Agatha Christie EVIL UNDER THE SUN POST

Evil Under the Sun

Agatha Christie

Someone gets murdered at a seaside resort. Poirot solves it. Kel, we assume, would have solved it faster, but she was busy founding book clubs.

Rachel's pick
THE REFORMATORY TANANARIVE DUE

The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

Ghosts, injustice and the Jim Crow South. A genuine masterpiece, selected, naturally, by the only member with founder-level taste.

Kel's pick (obviously the best one)
Metam- orphosis FRANZ KAFKA

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Man wakes up as a giant insect, family acts weird about it. Katy chose this and, much like Gregor Samsa, we simply had to accept our new reality.

Katy's pick
REJEC- TION DECLINED TONY TULATHIMUTTE

Rejection

Tony Tulathimutte

Linked stories about people being catastrophically unwanted. Reagan picked it. Tony rated his own book five stars on Goodreads. Kel would never. Kel has people for that.

Reagan's pick
The Keeper of Magical Things JULIE LEONG

The Keeper of Magical Things

Julie Leong

Cosy fantasy with tea and enchanted clutter. Vic's pick, and the closest this club has come to a group hug in paperback form.

Vic's pick

Words of the Faithful

Entirely real testimonials that we definitely did not write ourselves

"Before Kel, we simply owned books. She taught us to form a club about it. Visionary."
A grateful member
"I asked for creative licence once. Kel granted it. I wept."
Witness to Her mercy
"Historians will ask what came first, the big book or the energy. The answer is Kel."
Probably a historian
"Other book clubs exist, technically. In the way that other sandwiches exist next to a roast dinner."
BIG BOOK ENERGY™ is a wholly owned spiritual subsidiary of Kel Industries. All book selections are made freely by members and then retroactively credited to Kel's founding vision. "Creative licence" available on request, subject to approval by The Founder. Complaints may be submitted in writing, read aloud at book club, and gently mocked. This website was built by the owner of the site, who would like everyone to know he was very busy and did this out of love. He is a committed homosexual but would turn for Kel. No Kels were consulted in the making of this shrine, which is exactly how she would have wanted it, probably.