What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

I am looking for fiction about life as a nun or religious sister (NOT call the midwife- I love that show though). Thank you for any suggestions.

Cally, just to confirm, you're not looking for one specific book?

Lying Awake by Mark Salzman comes to mind

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden is excellent. In This House of Brede

The same author also wrote “Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy”, also about nuns, set in postwar France. Very good.

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy


Pamela wrote: "In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden is excellent. In This House of Brede"

Oh, you might also like A Right to Be Merry by Mary Francis. It’s nonfiction, but a very good read.

Obedience
Sacred Hearts
Unfinished Desires
The Graces of Ballykeen

Then Came Heaven
Uncommon Vows

The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme The Nun's Story

The Nun (I really didn't like it though)

The Sisterhood is a historical fiction novel set around a convent. It doesn't get into daily life but it's very interesting. Set during the Spanish Inquisition.

The Nun by Denis Diderot

"A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent."

Mercy House
Agnes of God
Lambs of God
A Saint from Texas
Mariette in Ecstasy
The Divine Economy of Salvation

Probably not quite what you're looking for, but Good Behavior by Donald Westlake is one of a series of books about John Dortmunder, the unluckiest thief in the world. While running away from the police one night he crashes into an urban nunnery. The good sisters agree not to rat him out if he will rescue one of their number who has been kidnapped by her family.

Most of the book is from the point of view of Dortmunder or one of the other thieves, but there are also scenes from the kidnapped nun's point of view, as she tries to escape from the penthouse apartment her father has confined her to while she is to be "deprogrammed" of her religious convictions.

The Rebel Nun
The Sacrament
Agatha of Little Neon
Saints for All Occasions

Tell Me Your Dreams

Four nuns on the run during a rebellion.

Changing Habits

The Land of Spices

A Great Day for the Deadly by Jane Haddam A Great Day for the Deadly

Murder Superior by Jane Haddam Murder Superior

Both of these are mysteries.

The Convent
The Sisters of St. Croix
The Corner That Held Them

Dolores
Unforgivable
Black Narcissus
The Girl from Vichy
The Nun's Betrothal
The Abbess of Crewe
When I Was Invisible
The Silence of the Vessel

There are several mystery series about nuns. I love clergy mysteries in general and regularly consult this resource. http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/Job...

I am trying to find a book I read a number of years ago, it is set in a mythical town controlled by an order of monks, eve is imprisoned and bleeds blood, she is freed in the end when she dies

Patrick wrote: "I am trying to find a book I read a number of years ago, it is set in a mythical town controlled by an order of monks, eve is imprisoned and bleeds blood, she is freed in the end when she dies"

Patrick, you need to start a new thread for your book, in the UNSOLVED folder.

Rainbowheart wrote: "Mercy House
Agnes of God
Lambs of God
A Saint from Texas
Mariette in Ecstasy
The Divine Economy of Salvation"

I personally LOVED Mercy House.

I know it was already mentioned, but I really enjoyed In This House of Brede.

Incidentally, I'm always on the lookout for fiction about nuns, also. :)

The Maiden of All Our Desires

The Nuns Go East

I just stumbled across this and realised I have to read it. :)

Matrix
The Calling
The Convent
Illuminations
The Anchoress
The King's Nun
The Golden Thread
The Butcher's Daughter
Confessions of a Pagan Nun

Angeline
When in Rome
Winter Pilgrims

Small Miracles
Scorched Grace
Our Lady of the Highway
The Miracle at Assisi Hill

While it's not about a nun/religious sister, the main character spends much of her life living in a convent. Castles from Cobwebs

Sisters of Belfast
Impossible Saints
The Queen of the Valley
The Island of Mists and Miracles

Mere
Blue Spark Sisters
Stone Yard Devotional
The Stars and Their Light
Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely?

A Nun in the Closet is an excellent humorous mystery about three nuns from a cloistered group moving into a cottage the group has been left as a donation. They run into hippies, gangsters, a Buddhist, and g men, but are triumphant and solve the mystery. From the late sixties or early seventies.