Books for Discerning Sisterhood:
A Change of Habit: Leaving Behind My Husband, Career, and Everything I Owned to Become a Nun by Sister Monica Clare (2025)
A Monk in the Inner City: The ABCs of a Spiritual Journey by Mary Lou Kownacki (2008)
A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community by Sister Simone Campbell (2015)
A Right to Be Merry by Mother Mary Francis P.C.C. (2021)
Always Room For One More: Wit and Wisdom from the Mother Teresa of Honduras by Kathy Martin O’Neil (2023)
Called by God: Discernment and Preparation for Religious Life by Rachael Marie Collins (2017)
Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America by Margaret M. McGuinness (2015)
Carmelite Spirituality by Cardinal Anders Arborelius (2020)
Dearest Sister Wendy . . . A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship by Wendy Beckett and Robert Ellsberg (2022)
Discerning Religious Life by Sister Clare Matthiass (2017)
Embracing Age: How Catholic Nuns Became Models of Aging Well (Global Perspectives on Aging) by Anna I. Corwin (2021)
God Alone and I: Carmelite Meditations by The Carmel of Flemington (2013)
Guide to the Catholic Sisterhoods in the United States, Fifth Edition Edited by Thomas P. McCarthy (2002)
If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission by Jo Piazza (2014)
Inside the Cloistered Life: Personal Letters of a Carmelite Nun by Sr. Marie of the Trinity (2024)
Katharine Drexel: The Riches-to-Rags Story of an American Catholic Saint by Cheryl C. D. Hughes (2014)
Loved as I Am: An Invitation to Conversion, Healing, and Freedom through Jesus by Sr. Miriam James Heidland SOLT (2014)
Madre: The Nun Who Was Mother to the Orphans of Honduras by Kathy Martin O’Neil (2022)
Millennial Nuns: Reflections on Living a Spiritual Life in a World of Social Media by The Daughters of Saint Paul (2021)
Mystic of the Holy Wounds: The Life and Revelations of Sister Mary Martha Chambon by Visitation Sisters of Chambéry and Ryan P. Plummer (2019)
Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles by Raymond Arroyo (2007)
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta by Mother Teresa and Brian Kolodiejchuk (2009)
Mother to Mother: Spiritual and Practical Wisdom from the Cloister to the Home by Mary Cuff Ph.D. (2024)
New Habits: Today’s Women Who Choose To Become Nuns by Isabel Losada (1999)
Nuns – What are they for? (CTS Onefifties) by Maria Boulding OSB (2017)
Sister Freaks: Stories of Women Who Gave Up Everything for God by Rebecca St. James (2005)
Sister, Soldier, Surgeon: The Life and Courage of Sister Deirdre Byrne, M.D. by Dr. Leisa Marie Carzon (2024)
Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America by John J. Fialka (2004)
Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia by Jo Ann Kay McNamara (1998)
St. Maria Skobtsova: Poet, Nun, Martyr: The Life and Legacy of a Modern Saint by Dickson Woods (2025)
Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South by Barbara E. Mattick (2023)
Three Nuns from the Ranch by Sister Kathleen Cogan (2017)
The Carmelite Directory of the Spiritual Life by Austin Chadwell (2014)
The Ear of the Heart: An Actress’ Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows by Mother Dolores Hart O.S.D. (2018)
The Golden Arrow: The Autobiography and Revelations of Sister Mary of St. Peter on Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus by Sister Mary of St. Peter (2019)
The Joy of God: Collected Writings by Mary David and St. Cecilia’s Abbey (2020)
The Life and Teachings of St. Veronica Giuliani: The Italian Mystic and CapuchIn Nun by Fr. Paul H. Kizito OSA (2024)
The Life of St. Veronica Giuliani, Capuchrin Nun by Filippo Maria Salvatori (2014)
The Little Flower Prayerbook: A Carmelite Manual of Prayer by Reverend Columba Downey O. Carm. (2012)
The Narrow Door: 33 women. A “Yes” that Changes Everything by Father Augustus (2025)
The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia’s Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail by Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan (2006)
The Story of Painting: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Art by Wendy Beckett (1997)
Trapped In Paradise: Catholic Nuns in the South Pacific 1940-1943 by Sister Hedda Jaeger (2024)
Wake Up With Purpose!: What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years by Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt (2023)
What Did You Do in the War, Sister? by Dennis J. Turner (2020)
