Meadows Book Club: 2026 Reading List

Only one book this year is on the reading list. One worth reading a thousand times over. One filled with despair, hope, vengeance, and justice. 

The Count of Monte Cristo (1846)

“What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?”

“Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.”