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Monastery Books
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The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.14 — 402,245 ratings — published 1980
The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8)
by (shelved 15 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,205 ratings — published 2012
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.06 — 62,882 ratings — published 2003
The Crowfield Curse (Crowfield Abbey, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,214 ratings — published 2010
The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)
by (shelved 4 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.16 — 10,900 ratings — published 1982
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,132 ratings — published 1959
The Cloister Walk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,983 ratings — published 1996
Matrix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.67 — 69,141 ratings — published 2021
The Beatryce Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,058 ratings — published 2021
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.35 — 847,248 ratings — published 1989
One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.07 — 18,235 ratings — published 1979
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.17 — 76,429 ratings — published 2008
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,172,797 ratings — published 1991
Espía de Dios (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.83 — 8,470 ratings — published 2006
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,879 ratings — published 2016
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.39 — 403,280 ratings — published 1880
Illuminations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,032 ratings — published 2012
The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,693 ratings — published 1983
Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.01 — 70,508 ratings — published 2006
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,205 ratings — published 2008
The Nun (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.75 — 9,163 ratings — published 1796
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 4.33 — 281,068 ratings — published 2007
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.88 — 35,797 ratings — published 2011
Mariette in Ecstasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,091 ratings — published 1991
A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,990 ratings — published 1953
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as monastery)
avg rating 3.96 — 45,314 ratings — published 1977
Saint Grimbald's Men (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2013
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 4.00 — 11,252 ratings — published 1996
Het bloemenmeisje (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,117 ratings — published 2020
The Way of Unity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.17 — 52 ratings — published 2023
The Breath of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.12 — 258 ratings — published 2018
Camp Damascus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,529 ratings — published 2023
The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,502 ratings — published 2019
Fated (Alex Verus, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.90 — 31,992 ratings — published 2012
Nicked (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.59 — 5,396 ratings — published 2024
The Cartographers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.63 — 82,154 ratings — published 2022
Holy Rover: Journeys in Search of Mystery, Miracles, and God (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.03 — 137 ratings — published
La Faute de l'abbé Mouret (Les Rougon-Macquart, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.59 — 2,440 ratings — published 1875
Hvis jeg har en sjel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.71 — 14 ratings — published
Le Bûcher des sorcières (Le chardon et le tartan, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,551 ratings — published 1991
Murder at the Monastery (Canon Clement, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,962 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 — 176,508 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 4.20 — 8,043 ratings — published 2023
The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,732 ratings — published 1990
Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 4.27 — 511 ratings — published 1957
Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.90 — 375,620 ratings — published 2017
Aflame: Learning from Silence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as monastery)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,319 ratings — published
“The peaceful life of the monastery, where true brotherhood was possible, was a small oasis in the midst of the suffering of war.”
― My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk
― My Master's Robe: Memories of a Novice Monk
“Women like Hild chose to join monasteries, rising to positions of great power as abbesses, gaining wisdom and influencing decision-making within the newly emerging church. They had a choice and they embraced lives that brought them in touch with the Christian continent, with new ideas, beautiful art and architecture, and a world of stories, saints and sinners that would change the ideological landscape of Britain long-term. Not until the last decades have women been able to assume such roles within the modern church, but for a short time in the seventh century they were the movers and shakers. [...]”
― Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
― Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
