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The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.14 — 390,901 ratings — published 1980
The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8)
by (shelved 14 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,167 ratings — published 2012
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,770 ratings — published 2003
The Crowfield Curse (Crowfield Abbey, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,190 ratings — published 2010
The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
by (shelved 4 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,609 ratings — published 1982
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.99 — 117,790 ratings — published 1959
The Cloister Walk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,906 ratings — published 1996
Matrix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.68 — 65,884 ratings — published 2021
The Beatryce Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,674 ratings — published 2021
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.35 — 817,997 ratings — published 1989
One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,711 ratings — published 1979
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.17 — 74,990 ratings — published 2008
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,140,615 ratings — published 1991
Espía de Dios (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,813 ratings — published 2006
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,498 ratings — published 2016
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.39 — 376,879 ratings — published 1880
Illuminations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,888 ratings — published 2012
The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,512 ratings — published 1983
Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.01 — 69,576 ratings — published 2006
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.97 — 50,602 ratings — published 2008
The Nun (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.75 — 8,666 ratings — published 1796
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.32 — 271,993 ratings — published 2007
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,842 ratings — published 2011
Mariette in Ecstasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,016 ratings — published 1991
A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,894 ratings — published 1953
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,980 ratings — published 1977
Het bloemenmeisje (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,719 ratings — published 2020
The Way of Unity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.25 — 44 ratings — published 2023
The Breath of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.13 — 246 ratings — published 2018
Camp Damascus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,911 ratings — published 2023
The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,171 ratings — published 2019
Fated (Alex Verus, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,035 ratings — published 2012
Nicked (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,884 ratings — published 2024
The Cartographers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.63 — 79,470 ratings — published 2022
Holy Rover: Journeys in Search of Mystery, Miracles, and God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.03 — 135 ratings — published
La Faute de l'abbé Mouret (Les Rougon-Macquart, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,284 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 — 3,111 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 — 172,456 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 — 7,187 ratings — published 2023
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,116 ratings — published 1990
Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.25 — 482 ratings — published 1957
Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.90 — 353,903 ratings — published 2017
Aflame: Learning from Silence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.80 — 998 ratings — published
Quo Vadis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.01 — 41,482 ratings — published 1896
Sacrilege (Giordano Bruno, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,654 ratings — published 2012
“Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowd
As herds of bellowing buses drive by
Love's anguish tightens your throat
As if you were never to be loved again
If you lived in the old days you would enter a monastery
You are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayer
You make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter crackles
The sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your life
It's a painting hanging in a dark museum
And sometimes you go and look at it close up”
― Zone
As herds of bellowing buses drive by
Love's anguish tightens your throat
As if you were never to be loved again
If you lived in the old days you would enter a monastery
You are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayer
You make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter crackles
The sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your life
It's a painting hanging in a dark museum
And sometimes you go and look at it close up”
― Zone
“Mankind does not need monasteries to live, but monasteries need mankind to live!”
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