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The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.14 — 392,984 ratings — published 1980
The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8)
by (shelved 14 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,937 ratings — published 2012
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.06 — 61,141 ratings — published 2003
The Crowfield Curse (Crowfield Abbey, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,194 ratings — published 2010
The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
by (shelved 4 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,658 ratings — published 1982
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.99 — 118,574 ratings — published 1959
The Cloister Walk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,918 ratings — published 1996
Matrix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.68 — 66,474 ratings — published 2021
The Beatryce Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,762 ratings — published 2021
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.35 — 823,235 ratings — published 1989
One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,808 ratings — published 1979
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.17 — 75,266 ratings — published 2008
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,145,735 ratings — published 1991
Espía de Dios (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,940 ratings — published 2006
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.01 — 21,010 ratings — published 2016
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.39 — 381,554 ratings — published 1880
Illuminations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,915 ratings — published 2012
The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,553 ratings — published 1983
Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.01 — 69,742 ratings — published 2006
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.97 — 50,708 ratings — published 2008
The Nun (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,789 ratings — published 1796
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.32 — 273,742 ratings — published 2007
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,044 ratings — published 2011
Mariette in Ecstasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,026 ratings — published 1991
A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,907 ratings — published 1953
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.96 — 44,237 ratings — published 1977
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.99 — 10,985 ratings — published 1996
Het bloemenmeisje (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,001 ratings — published 2020
The Way of Unity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.18 — 50 ratings — published 2023
The Breath of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.14 — 247 ratings — published 2018
Camp Damascus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.87 — 25,889 ratings — published 2023
The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,412 ratings — published 2019
Fated (Alex Verus, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,237 ratings — published 2012
Nicked (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.62 — 4,332 ratings — published 2024
The Cartographers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.63 — 80,056 ratings — published 2022
Holy Rover: Journeys in Search of Mystery, Miracles, and God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.02 — 136 ratings — published
La Faute de l'abbé Mouret (Les Rougon-Macquart, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,321 ratings — published 1875
Hvis jeg har en sjel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.69 — 13 ratings — published
Le Bûcher des sorcières (Le chardon et le tartan, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,526 ratings — published 1991
Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,331 ratings — published 2024
Век страсти: французская фривольная проза (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Secret Keeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,185 ratings — published 2012
A Ghost for The Holy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,376 ratings — published 2023
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,220 ratings — published 1990
Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.25 — 488 ratings — published 1957
Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.90 — 358,797 ratings — published 2017
Aflame: Learning from Silence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,066 ratings — published
Quo Vadis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.01 — 41,738 ratings — published 1896
“He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,”
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“I had no idea what they sang. I guessed it was all in Latin, but some words could have been French. I didn't need to understand the words to have them touch me. I don't know whether it was the acoustics, the song, the beauty of the singing or the conviction behind it, but there was grandeur and hope in every note.
The frescos flickered in candlelight and stained-glass men looked down upon me benevolently as the monks' singing brought pieces of me apart. Maybe this was why I had come, why I was meant to be here. I saw tears running down Fabiana's cheeks.
Brother Rocher asked in French and English for those wishing to be blessed to come forward. I sat and watched the three Brazilians and half a dozen others move forward in turn. There was a final chant and everyone filed out. Except me.
Centuries of singing, service to others and dedication to something bigger than twenty-first-century materialism had created a peace that permeated the walls. Whatever issues I had with religion were not relevant here. The stillness and austerity gave me a strange sense of comfort, and I seemed to be moving toward some sort of clarity.”
― Two Steps Forward
The frescos flickered in candlelight and stained-glass men looked down upon me benevolently as the monks' singing brought pieces of me apart. Maybe this was why I had come, why I was meant to be here. I saw tears running down Fabiana's cheeks.
Brother Rocher asked in French and English for those wishing to be blessed to come forward. I sat and watched the three Brazilians and half a dozen others move forward in turn. There was a final chant and everyone filed out. Except me.
Centuries of singing, service to others and dedication to something bigger than twenty-first-century materialism had created a peace that permeated the walls. Whatever issues I had with religion were not relevant here. The stillness and austerity gave me a strange sense of comfort, and I seemed to be moving toward some sort of clarity.”
― Two Steps Forward
