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Monastic Books
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The Rule of Saint Benedict (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,496 ratings — published 530
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.14 — 401,127 ratings — published 1980
The Seven Storey Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.08 — 21,203 ratings — published 1948
The Cloister Walk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.05 — 8,977 ratings — published 1996
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,676 ratings — published 1959
The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 5 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.84 — 57 ratings — published 1993
How to Be a Monastic and Not Leave Your Day Job: An Invitation to Oblate Life (Voices from the Monastery)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.86 — 243 ratings — published 2006
The Ladder of Monks (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.53 — 94 ratings — published 2012
In This House of Brede (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,990 ratings — published 1969
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,559 ratings — published 1975
Spiritual Friendship (Cistercian Fathers 5)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.21 — 607 ratings — published 1974
Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.01 — 388 ratings — published 2007
St. Benedict's Toolbox: The Nuts and Bolts of Everyday Benedictine Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.21 — 201 ratings — published 2005
Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.34 — 954 ratings — published 1990
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.29 — 688 ratings — published 1984
Living with Contradiction: An Introduction to Benedictine Spirituality (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.36 — 230 ratings — published 1989
Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.12 — 667 ratings — published 2006
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.30 — 266 ratings — published 1960
Stone Yard Devotional (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.71 — 30,738 ratings — published 2023
The Shattering of Loneliness: On Christian Remembrance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.31 — 398 ratings — published
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.20 — 197,469 ratings — published 2021
Illuminations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,019 ratings — published 2012
A Time to Keep Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,982 ratings — published 1953
The Way of Silent Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 1993
Dragon's Wine and Angel's Bread: The Teaching of Evagrius Ponticus on Anger and Meekness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.41 — 61 ratings — published 1999
Evagrius Ponticus: The Praktikos. Chapters on Prayer (Cistercian Studies)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.18 — 186 ratings — published 1970
Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.14 — 349 ratings — published 1996
Toward God: The Ancient Wisdom of Western Prayer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.29 — 141 ratings — published 1996
On the Religious Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 1885
Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.26 — 257 ratings — published 2001
On Contemplating God, Prayer, Meditations (Cistercian Fathers Series) (Volume 3)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.42 — 12 ratings — published 1970
The Golden Epistle: A Letter to the Brethren at Mont Dieu (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.21 — 38 ratings — published 1145
The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.28 — 391 ratings — published 2011
The Road to Eternal Life: Reflections on the Prologue of Benedict's Rule (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.52 — 62 ratings — published 2011
Truthful Living: Saint Benedict's Teaching on Humility (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 1999
Reclaiming Humility: Four Studies in the Monastic Tradition (Volume 255) (Cistercian Studies Series)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 2015
Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,804 ratings — published 2006
No Man Is an Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,313 ratings — published 1955
Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.50 — 408 ratings — published
Notebooks of a Wandering Monk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.40 — 115 ratings — published 2021
Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.42 — 11,710 ratings — published 2022
The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,371 ratings — published 1970
The Corner That Held Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,031 ratings — published 1948
Agatha of Little Neon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,813 ratings — published 2021
Entering the Twofold Mystery: On Christian Conversion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.28 — 57 ratings — published
The Monastery of the Heart: An Invitation to a Meaningful Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.26 — 371 ratings — published 2011
Matrix (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.67 — 68,817 ratings — published 2021
Embracing Solitude: Women and New Monasticism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2013
In Praise of the Useless Life: A Monk’s Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 4.05 — 297 ratings — published 2018
Saint Benedict on the Freeway: A Rule of Life for the 21st Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as monastic)
avg rating 3.91 — 35 ratings — published 2001
“My body kills me, so I kill it.”
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“Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.”
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