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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 409,482 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 864,150 ratings
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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4.33 avg rating — 286,167 ratings
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Sacred Hearts
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3.81 avg rating — 14,113 ratings
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Pope Joan
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4.10 avg rating — 75,859 ratings
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A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 45,987 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.40 avg rating — 420,820 ratings
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In This House of Brede
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4.36 avg rating — 7,188 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.22 avg rating — 869,226 ratings
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The Devil's Novice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #8)
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4.14 avg rating — 7,828 ratings
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St. Peter's Fair (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #4)
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4.11 avg rating — 12,059 ratings
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The Rose Rent (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #13)
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4.17 avg rating — 7,442 ratings
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The Sanctuary Sparrow (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #7)
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4.08 avg rating — 8,751 ratings
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Consolations
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4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Nun's Story
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4.20 avg rating — 1,268 ratings
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Illuminations
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3.99 avg rating — 5,098 ratings
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Absolution by Murder (Sister Fidelma, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 6,143 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 124,815 ratings
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The Monk
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3.87 avg rating — 37,286 ratings
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An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)
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4.16 avg rating — 8,411 ratings
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The Cloister Walk
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4.05 avg rating — 9,009 ratings
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Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 133,127 ratings
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The Gargoyle
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3.98 avg rating — 51,516 ratings
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The Crown (Joanna Stafford, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 4,456 ratings
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Hild (The Hild Sequence, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 13,341 ratings
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The Pilgrim of Hate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #10)
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4.10 avg rating — 6,841 ratings
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
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4.24 avg rating — 287,371 ratings
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The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #6)
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4.16 avg rating — 11,073 ratings
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The Potter's Field (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #17)
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4.13 avg rating — 6,715 ratings
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A Rare Benedictine (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, prequel stories 0.1-0.3)
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4.07 avg rating — 6,394 ratings
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The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)
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4.09 avg rating — 7,058 ratings
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The Confession of Brother Haluin (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #15)
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4.13 avg rating — 6,270 ratings
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The Summer of the Danes (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #18)
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4.07 avg rating — 5,441 ratings
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The Door in the Wall
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3.78 avg rating — 21,903 ratings
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The Heretic's Apprentice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #16)
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4.15 avg rating — 6,463 ratings
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One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)
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4.07 avg rating — 18,663 ratings
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Dead Man's Ransom (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #9)
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4.06 avg rating — 7,353 ratings
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The Leper of Saint Giles (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #5)
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4.16 avg rating — 13,897 ratings
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The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #14)
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4.11 avg rating — 6,521 ratings
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Brother Cadfael's Penance (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #20)
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4.33 avg rating — 6,412 ratings
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The Holy Thief (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #19)
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4.13 avg rating — 5,668 ratings
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Monk's Hood (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #3)
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4.07 avg rating — 13,689 ratings
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The Beatryce Prophecy
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4.28 avg rating — 11,263 ratings
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The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8)
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4.20 avg rating — 95,745 ratings
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Son of a Witch (The Wicked Years, #2)
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3.51 avg rating — 72,646 ratings
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The Greenhouse
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3.82 avg rating — 7,344 ratings
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The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0)
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4.39 avg rating — 141,464 ratings
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Haven
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3.42 avg rating — 12,208 ratings
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Mariette in Ecstasy
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3.76 avg rating — 3,156 ratings
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Small Things Like These
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4.06 avg rating — 530,672 ratings
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Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 41,585 ratings
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Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 108,387 ratings
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A Right to Be Merry
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4.54 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Masters of Silence (The Heroes Quartet, #2)
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4.05 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Matrix
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3.67 avg rating — 71,038 ratings
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Thomas Merton: An Introduction to His Life, Teachings, and Practi
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3.95 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Tilda
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4.13 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
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3.94 avg rating — 8,903 ratings
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The Fountains of Paradise
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3.95 avg rating — 32,496 ratings
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A Whispered Name
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4.07 avg rating — 578 ratings
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The Mermaid Chair
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3.24 avg rating — 91,384 ratings
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The Staircase
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3.75 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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Queen of the Sea
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4.14 avg rating — 3,805 ratings
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Knowledge of Angels
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4.01 avg rating — 1,856 ratings
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From Sand and Ash
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4.38 avg rating — 69,812 ratings
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Dogs in the Dead of Night (Magic Tree House, #46)
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4.16 avg rating — 3,245 ratings
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The Rebel Nun
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3.71 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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Learwife
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3.40 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
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Belladonna
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3.44 avg rating — 1,007 ratings
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When in Rome
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3.04 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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The Falconer's Knot: A Story of Friars, Flirtation and Foul Play
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3.62 avg rating — 1,284 ratings
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The Monk in the Garden : The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
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3.84 avg rating — 441 ratings
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The Magdalen Girls
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3.84 avg rating — 12,010 ratings
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Briefly, A Delicious Life
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3.74 avg rating — 10,070 ratings
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The Nun
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3.76 avg rating — 9,452 ratings
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The Novice's Tale (Sister Frevisse, #1)
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Tulku
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3.80 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Secret of Kells
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4.06 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Way of the Snow Crane
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3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Cecilia House
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4.14 avg rating — 35 ratings
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All We Know of Heaven
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3.83 avg rating — 211 ratings
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The Monastery
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3.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Mediocre Monk: A Stumbling Search for Answers in a Forest Monastery
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4.01 avg rating — 180 ratings
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A Symphony of Love: Selections of Dr. Kenneth Wapnick's Writings: Autobiographies, Poetry, Short Stories, and Articles
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Mere
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Teachings of Mother Nature
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The Unworthy
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Amata Means Beloved
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Mermaid
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Monastery
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The Good Little Devil
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Once We Were Home
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Lieutenant Nun: The True Story of a Cross-Dressing, Transatlantic Adventurer Who Escaped From a Spanish Convent in 1599 and Lived as a Man
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3.55 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life
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3.61 avg rating — 1,155 ratings
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The Prioress' Tale (Sister Frevisse, #7)
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4.16 avg rating — 999 ratings
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De dame in blauw
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3.28 avg rating — 2,094 ratings
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The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
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4.34 avg rating — 1,540 ratings
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Credo
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Decessit Vita Matris
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The Rotting Room
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Redwall Abbey is explicitly monastic. And yet, it is essentially secular. And yet, it is literally an abbey with an order of brothers and sisters governed by an Abbot (or Abbess in other books), and novices. can't even begin to know what to do with all the other books in Brian Jacques' long series, but I figure that the first book at least, "Redwall," definitely fits this list.
