📚 Monastic and Religious Life

Books with monastic and religious life on their catalogue record, first published between 1505 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject monastic and religious life in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 4,831 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Saint Francis of Assisi	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1923	547
	Les moines d'Occident depuis Saint Benoit jusqu'a Saint Bernard	Charles de Montalembert	1860	74
	English monastic life	Francis Aidan Gasquet	1904	28
	Think Like a Monk	Jay Shetty	2020	24
	A Time to Keep Silence	Patrick Leigh Fermor	1953	21
	The sign of Jonas	Thomas Merton	1953	18
	The silent life	Thomas Merton	1957	14
	Scala Paradisi	John Climacus, Saint	1505	13
	Woman under monasticism	Lina Eckenstein	1896	12
	Sancta Sophia	Augustine Baker	1657	11
	Spiritualité chrétienne	P. Pourrat	1922	6
	Vom Geheimnis der Mönche	Walter Nigg	1953	5
	Dagende niets	Janwillem van de Wetering	1975	5
	John Paul II speaks to religious	John Paul II	1981	5
	Melodies of a New Monasticism	Craig Gardiner	2018	5
	De bono status religiosi	Girolamo Piatti	1612	4
	Principles Of Religious Life	Francis Cuthbert Doyle	1890	4
	Elements Of Religious Life	William Humphrey	1895	4
	L' idéal monastique et la vie Chrétienne des premiers jours	Germain Morin	1914	4
	A Franciscan view of the spiritual and religious life	Saint Bonaventure, Cardinal	1922	4
	Searching for God	Basil Hume	1977	4
	Centered on Christ	Augustine Roberts	1979	4
	The frontiers of paradise	Peter Levi	1987	4
	Inside Story Medieval Monastery	David Salariya	1994	4
	Nuns	Silvia Evangelisti	2007	4
	The Dominican way	Lucette Verboven	2011	4
	On prayer and the contemplative life	Thomas Aquinas	1914	3
	To live is Christ	Robert W. Gleason	1961	3
	Monastic spirituality	Claude J. Peifer	1966	3
	The view from a monastery	Benet Tvedten	1999	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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