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Hagiography Books
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Saint Thomas Aquinas (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,853 ratings — published 1923
The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,092 ratings — published 1565
Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.44 — 21,600 ratings — published 1898
Confessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.00 — 76,188 ratings — published 400
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.18 — 646 ratings — published 357
The Life of St. Anthony (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,748 ratings — published 357
The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,900 ratings — published 1396
The Life of Saint Macrina (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.10 — 435 ratings — published 380
Catherine of Siena (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,360 ratings — published 1951
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,972 ratings — published 1999
Joan of Arc (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.13 — 10,374 ratings — published 1896
Bonaventure: The Soul's Journey into God / The Tree of Life / The Life of St. Francis (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.26 — 366 ratings — published 1978
Life of St. Columba (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.85 — 319 ratings — published 713
Saints Behaving Badly: The Cutthroats, Crooks, Trollops, Con Men, and Devil-Worshippers Who Became Saints (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.63 — 459 ratings — published 2006
Early Christian Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.81 — 107 ratings — published
Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.22 — 91 ratings — published 2013
The Life of Christina of Markyate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.27 — 376 ratings — published 1349
The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.95 — 879 ratings — published 1981
Maurice and Therese: The Story of a Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.52 — 424 ratings — published 1998
The Life of St. Francis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.13 — 528 ratings — published 1263
The Life of St. Catherine of Siena (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.36 — 133 ratings — published 1393
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.61 — 6,221 ratings — published 1981
John Henry Newman: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.34 — 92 ratings — published 1989
The Rule of Saint Benedict (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.00 — 8,492 ratings — published 530
The Lessons of Saint Francis: How to Bring Simplicity and Spirituality into Your Daily Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.12 — 770 ratings — published 1997
The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila. Volume 2: The Way of Perfection, Meditations on the Song of Songs, The Interior Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.51 — 165 ratings — published 1980
The Word on Fire Bible (Volume II): Acts, Letters and Revelation (Leather) (Word on Fire Bible Series)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.93 — 230 ratings — published
Butler's Lives of the Saints: Concise Edition, Revised and Updated (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.03 — 62 ratings — published
The Prologue of Ohrid: Lives of Saints, Hymns, Reflections and Homilies For Every Day of the Year (Volume 1: January to June)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.80 — 122 ratings — published 1926
Gift and Mystery: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of My Priestly Ordination (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.24 — 398 ratings — published 1996
Aelfric's Lives of Saints Part One (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.66 — 38 ratings — published 1881
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,760 ratings — published 100
St. Vincent Ferrer: The Angel of the Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.21 — 47 ratings — published 1875
Shenoute and the Women of the White Monastery: Egyptian Monasticism in Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.82 — 11 ratings — published 2001
Saint Silouan the Athonite (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.69 — 327 ratings — published 1991
Edith Stein: The Life and Legacy of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.17 — 191 ratings — published
Life of St. Vincent de Paul (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.29 — 152 ratings — published 1919
Illuminations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,018 ratings — published 2012
Francis of Assisi: A New Biography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.97 — 327 ratings — published 2012
The Spiritual Meadow of John Moschos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.84 — 69 ratings — published 600
The Confession of Saint Patrick (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,156 ratings — published 425
Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.59 — 3,602 ratings — published 2020
Tears and Saints (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,491 ratings — published 1937
Wounded by Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.74 — 985 ratings — published 2005
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.21 — 893 ratings — published 1987
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,375,063 ratings — published 2011
Life of Saint Katherine of Alexandria (Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.52 — 31 ratings — published 1987
Saint of the Day: The Definitive Guide to the Saints (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.11 — 94 ratings — published 1990
Edmund Campion: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 4.27 — 601 ratings — published 1935
Life of Constantine (Clarendon Ancient History Series)
by (shelved 2 times as hagiography)
avg rating 3.62 — 170 ratings — published 339
“I suppose someone could trawl through the 383 volumes of Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus and extract some book-length hagiographies that qualify as novels — there had to be a few protonovelists who adopted hagiography as the only game in town, as painters of religious subjects learned to do — but that someone isn't me.”
― The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
― The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600







