30 books
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Nuns Books
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In This House of Brede (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,844 ratings — published 1969
The Corner That Held Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,914 ratings — published 1948
Sacred Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.79 — 13,483 ratings — published 2008
The Ninth Hour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.59 — 18,866 ratings — published 2017
Black Narcissus (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,377 ratings — published 1939
Agatha of Little Neon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,722 ratings — published 2021
Scorched Grace (Sister Holiday Mystery #1)
by (shelved 12 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.19 — 9,540 ratings — published 2023
Illuminations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,960 ratings — published 2012
The Patron Saint of Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.90 — 69,734 ratings — published 1992
Confessions of a Pagan Nun (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,865 ratings — published 2001
The Unworthy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.60 — 48,955 ratings — published 2023
Stone Yard Devotional (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.73 — 26,020 ratings — published 2023
Carnality (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,328 ratings — published 2019
Mariette in Ecstasy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.76 — 3,042 ratings — published 1991
The Nun's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,244 ratings — published 1952
The Novice's Tale (Sister Frevisse, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,253 ratings — published 1992
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.09 — 450,775 ratings — published 2021
The Rebel Nun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.71 — 989 ratings — published 2021
Sisters of the Vast Black (Our Lady of Endless Worlds, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,351 ratings — published 2019
Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.89 — 107,937 ratings — published 2012
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.33 — 276,923 ratings — published 2007
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,009 ratings — published 2024
Vespertine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.09 — 25,554 ratings — published 2021
The Anchoress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,880 ratings — published 2015
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.33 — 428,265 ratings — published 2009
The Land of Spices (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.93 — 799 ratings — published 1941
Holy Fools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.61 — 9,119 ratings — published 2003
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy (Loyola Classics)
by (shelved 8 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,479 ratings — published 1979
Queen of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,720 ratings — published 2019
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.18 — 184,628 ratings — published 2019
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.44 — 20,905 ratings — published 1898
Saints for All Occasions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.89 — 28,319 ratings — published 2017
The Abbess of Crewe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,429 ratings — published 1974
And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,116 ratings — published 2013
Frost in May (Frost in May #1)
by (shelved 7 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,368 ratings — published 1933
The Birth of Venus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.81 — 100,019 ratings — published 2003
A Nun in the Closet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,010 ratings — published 1975
Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,087 ratings — published 2017
If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.03 — 920 ratings — published 2014
Lying Awake (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,207 ratings — published 2000
Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuns)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,253 ratings — published 1981
Lambs of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.67 — 866 ratings — published 1998
Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.71 — 376 ratings — published 2004
Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.38 — 270 ratings — published 2025
The Rotting Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,050 ratings — published 2025
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,724 ratings — published 1133
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuns)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,919 ratings — published 2023
“Anything you are going through right now has probably already happened to a nun living several hundred years ago”
― Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
― Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
“We are the bones of this city, the heart, the womb. The hidden structure and architecture behind the beautiful facades. We are unseen yet leaned upon, vessels yet not empty, the home for our families. The hopes of our city are thrust upon us, and we will be punished if we fail.”
― The Virgins of Venice
― The Virgins of Venice















