First Monday Book Club Selections
The First Monday Book Club meets virtually from Noon – 1 p.m. each month on the first Monday. We enjoy lively discussion of our book selections and fellowship from friends from our Cathedral family and beyond. Zoom has expanded our group beyond Jacksonville! We currently have members in North Carolina, Oregon and Texas. All book selections are available for purchase in the bookstore. Contact the bookstore if you would to participate in our monthly meetings. cathedralbookstore@jaxcathedral.org
Please find our 2025 First Monday Book Club selections listed below. To see all of the books we have read, please go to our Bookshop site listed below that includes past book club selections.
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Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South
$26.00
MAY 2024 SELECTION On a sweltering day in August 1960, in the segregated Deep South city of Jacksonville, Florida, a seventeen-year-old Black boy finished his dishwashing job at Morrison's Cafeteria,...
Life Worth Living, A Guide to What Matters Most
$29.00
February 2025 First Monday Book Club pick 2024 St. John's Cathedral summer book read and Zoom class on Sunday afternoons from 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. on the following dates:...
How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
$30.00
First Monday Book Club February 2024 Selection NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - Large Print
$30.00
FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB MARCH 2024 SELECTION AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME...
Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Novel
$29.99
August 2024 First Monday Book Club selection AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by:...
The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
$16.95
FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB 2023 SELECTION Not only accepting but also celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating book looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes...
Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
$18.00
FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB JULY 2024 SELECTION "Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world." --The New York Times "A wry,...
Mere Christianity
$17.99
DECEMBER 2024 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION "C.S. Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds...
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man (paperback)
$18.99
SEPTEMBER 2024 BOOK CLUB SELECTION One of our nation's most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in...
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
$16.99
FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB APRIL 2024 SELECTION From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten...
The Frozen River: A Novel
$28.00
NOVEMBER 2024 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION GMA BOOK CLUB PICK - AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes...
Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help
$16.99
OCTOBER 2024 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it....
Uncle Tom's Cabin
$11.95
MARCH 2025 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION "The most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery."-Alfred Kazin When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1862, he...
Ordinary Grace: A Novel
$17.00
2023 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVELWINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARDA SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling...
Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
$15.99
2023 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in...
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: A Novel
$18.00
FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB JUNE 2024 SELECTION A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick "Beautifully written and incredibly funny, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is about the importance of friendship and human...
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old (hardback) Man
$26.00
One of our nation's most prominent writers discovers the truth about how to live a long and happy life from the centenarian next door in this "original and highly readable...
The Women: A Novel
$30.00
JULY 2025 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times!From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin...
Mozart's Starling
$19.99
MAY 2025 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the...
The Bluest Eye: A Novel
$16.00
JUNE 2025 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks...
Old Babes in the Wood
$18.00
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory,...
James: A Novel
$28.00
AUGUST 2025 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from...
All the Light We Cannot See
$18.99
2023 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES--from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer...
Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
$29.00
First Monday Book Club April 2023 selection #1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD - Meet Elizabeth Zott: "a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to...
Last Bus to Wisdom: A Novel
$18.00
OCTOBER 2025 FIRST MONDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and Kirkus ReviewThe final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised...