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The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettWorld Without End by Ken FollettSacred Hearts by Sarah DunantPope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Monasteries and Convents
228 books — 65 voters
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers by Benedicta WardThe Forgotten Desert Mothers by Laura SwanWalking the Bible by Bruce FeilerDesert Fathers and Mothers by Christine Valters PaintnerThe Lives of the Desert Fathers by Norman Russell
Desert Spirituality
49 books — 11 voters

My God and My All by Elizabeth GoudgeBrother Sun, Sister Moon by Katherine PatersonSt. Francis of Assisi by Omer EnglebertFrancis of Assisi by André VauchezThe Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi by Ungolino di Monte Santa Maria
Saint Francis of Assisi
106 books — 7 voters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Secret of Kells by Tomm MooreThe Load of Unicorn by Cynthia HarnettBook of Colours by Robyn CadwalladerThe Keys and the Candle by Maryhale Woolsey
Fiction: Scribes, Scriptoria, Illuminated Manuscripts, Calligraphers
20 books — 6 voters

A Time for Swords by Matthew HarffyIsland by David AlmondNaturalist on Lindisfarne by Richard PerryGrace Darling by Christine BellThe Magic of Holy Island by Henry Tegner
Lindisfarne, the Farne Islands, Northumbria (Northumberland, UK)
35 books — 4 voters
The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas MertonLiving For Higher Purpose by Peter G. VuThe American Pope by John CooneyEdmund Campion by Evelyn WaughA Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church by Rembert G. Weakland
Catholic Priests (nonfiction)
5 books — 2 voters

Mere by Danielle GilesNicked by M.T. AndersonAn Excellent Mystery by Ellis PetersThe Monk and the Banished Prince by Jaberona B.L.Road to Rome by Marina Pacheco
Queer Monastic Books
39 books — 1 voter

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