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Monastic

Monastic Books

The Rule of Saint Benedict

The Name of the Rose

The Seven Storey Mountain

The Cloister Walk

A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)

The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century (Penguin Classics)

How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voices from the Monastery)

The Ladder of Monks

In This House of Brede

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)

Spiritual Friendship (Cistercian Fathers 5)

Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants

St. Benedict's Toolbox: The Nuts and Bolts of Everyday Benedictine Living

Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today

Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict

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My God and My All by Elizabeth Goudge

Brother Sun, Sister Moon by Katherine Paterson

St. Francis of Assisi by Omer Englebert

Francis of Assisi by André Vauchez

The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi by Ungolino di Monte Santa Maria

Saint Francis of Assisi

107 books — 8 voters

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Secret of Kells by Tomm Moore

The Load of Unicorn by Cynthia Harnett

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

Salamander by Thomas Wharton

Fiction: Scribes, Scriptoria, Illuminated Manuscripts, Calligraphers

20 books — 7 voters

The Sayings of the Desert Fathers by Benedicta Ward

The Forgotten Desert Mothers by Laura Swan

Poems for a Peaceful Soul by James-Patrick Geocaris

Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler

Desert Fathers and Mothers by Christine Valters Paintner

Desert Spirituality

51 books — 16 voters

Mere by Danielle Giles

Nicked by M.T. Anderson

An Excellent Mystery by Ellis Peters

The Monk and the Banished Prince by Jaberona B.L.

Road to Rome by Marina Pacheco

Queer Monastic Books

39 books — 1 voter

The Shining by Stephen King

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson

The Martian by Andy Weir

Isolation, Seclusion and Solitude in Speculative Fiction

65 books — 1 voter

The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton

Living For Higher Purpose by Peter G. Vu

The American Pope by John Cooney

Edmund Campion by Evelyn Waugh

A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church by Rembert G. Weakland

Catholic Priests (nonfiction)

5 books — 2 voters

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― Thomas Merton

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