Best books with no vampires, no magic spells, no fantasy, no aliens, no sci-fi, etc.

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
What's Eating Gilbert Grape 4.10 avg rating — 17,238 ratings
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A House in the Sky
A House in the Sky 4.28 avg rating — 70,663 ratings
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The Last Woman Standing
The Last Woman Standing 3.67 avg rating — 10,963 ratings
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Convenience Store Woman
Convenience Store Woman 3.68 avg rating — 349,165 ratings
105.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 3.79 avg rating — 30,887 ratings
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The Glass Ocean
The Glass Ocean 3.89 avg rating — 22,207 ratings
107.
When God Was a Rabbit
When God Was a Rabbit 3.79 avg rating — 49,879 ratings
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America 3.96 avg rating — 8,643 ratings
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Le pigeon
Le pigeon 3.71 avg rating — 22,173 ratings
109.
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 4.18 avg rating — 359,859 ratings
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Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 331,918 ratings
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The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving 3.78 avg rating — 11,190 ratings
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The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke 3.87 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
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The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 260,953 ratings
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The Lake House
The Lake House 4.08 avg rating — 127,721 ratings
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure 4.04 avg rating — 5,662 ratings
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City of Thieves
City of Thieves 4.30 avg rating — 162,005 ratings
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4.31 avg rating — 26,727 ratings
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The Concubine's Tattoo (Sano Ichiro, #4)
The Concubine's Tattoo (Sano Ichiro, #4) 3.88 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
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419
419 3.62 avg rating — 12,798 ratings
119.
A Fighting Chance
A Fighting Chance 4.15 avg rating — 14,891 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) 4.20 avg rating — 702,486 ratings
123.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Complete Sherlock Holmes 4.51 avg rating — 214,391 ratings
123.
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs 3.76 avg rating — 12,823 ratings
123.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Art of Racing in the Rain 4.23 avg rating — 545,686 ratings
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Sanditon
Sanditon 3.79 avg rating — 7,528 ratings
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down 3.88 avg rating — 11,726 ratings
128.
The Painter from Shanghai
The Painter from Shanghai 3.79 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
128.
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt 4.14 avg rating — 88,883 ratings
130.
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I 4.16 avg rating — 7,058 ratings
130.
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World 3.90 avg rating — 46,988 ratings
132.
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers 4.26 avg rating — 28,700 ratings
132.
The Headmaster's Wager
The Headmaster's Wager 3.88 avg rating — 5,120 ratings
132.
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 133,657 ratings
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The Summer Of The Bear
The Summer Of The Bear 3.71 avg rating — 2,460 ratings
135.
Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice 4.04 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
137.
Animal Farm / 1984
Animal Farm / 1984 4.30 avg rating — 211,259 ratings
137.
A Little Life
A Little Life 4.29 avg rating — 858,999 ratings
139.
The Amazing Absorbing Boy
The Amazing Absorbing Boy 3.22 avg rating — 368 ratings
139.
The Nightingale
The Nightingale 4.64 avg rating — 1,894,699 ratings
141.
Domestic Violets
Domestic Violets 3.87 avg rating — 7,597 ratings
141.
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories 3.90 avg rating — 1,338,390 ratings
143.
La parfaite lumière (Musashi, #2)
La parfaite lumière (Musashi, #2) 4.48 avg rating — 547 ratings
143.
Mudbound
Mudbound 4.05 avg rating — 69,751 ratings
143.
The Ugly American
The Ugly American 4.06 avg rating — 5,031 ratings
146.
La pierre et le sabre (Musashi, #1)
La pierre et le sabre (Musashi, #1) 4.40 avg rating — 908 ratings
146.
A World Elsewhere
A World Elsewhere 3.50 avg rating — 906 ratings
146.
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice
The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice 4.05 avg rating — 12,886 ratings
149.
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa 3.64 avg rating — 1,145 ratings
149.
Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World 3.84 avg rating — 17,588 ratings
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A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder--How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place
A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder--How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place 3.49 avg rating — 1,261 ratings
151.
Into The Heart Of The Country
Into The Heart Of The Country 3.51 avg rating — 113 ratings
151.
Still Alice
Still Alice 4.32 avg rating — 355,945 ratings
154.
The Free World
The Free World 3.37 avg rating — 1,759 ratings
154.
Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2)
Anne of Avonlea (Anne of Green Gables, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 218,821 ratings
156.
Status Anxiety
Status Anxiety 3.89 avg rating — 21,210 ratings
156.
That Old Cape Magic
That Old Cape Magic 3.36 avg rating — 18,465 ratings
156.
Eleanor & Park
Eleanor & Park 3.93 avg rating — 1,240,251 ratings
159.
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
159.
The Risk Pool
The Risk Pool 4.08 avg rating — 7,602 ratings
161.
Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Definitive Interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's Classic Book of Strategy
Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Definitive Interpretation of Miyamoto Musashi's Classic Book of Strategy 3.95 avg rating — 59,371 ratings
161.
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,772 ratings
163.
A Fraction of the Whole
A Fraction of the Whole 4.14 avg rating — 23,931 ratings
163.
The Newlyweds
The Newlyweds 3.42 avg rating — 9,439 ratings
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Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art 3.66 avg rating — 5,382 ratings
166.
The Wilding
The Wilding 3.44 avg rating — 987 ratings
166.
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I 3.97 avg rating — 6,897 ratings
168.
Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)
Nobody's Fool (Sully #1) 4.11 avg rating — 32,109 ratings
168.
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban 4.16 avg rating — 612,706 ratings
170.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 3.90 avg rating — 144,382 ratings
170.
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 1,762,270 ratings
172.
A Home at the End of the World
A Home at the End of the World 3.95 avg rating — 21,672 ratings
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Rush Home Road
Rush Home Road 4.16 avg rating — 11,094 ratings
174.
The Glass Bead Game
The Glass Bead Game 4.10 avg rating — 41,301 ratings
175.
The Bishop's Man (The Cape Breton Trilogy #2)
The Bishop's Man (The Cape Breton Trilogy #2) 3.74 avg rating — 8,143 ratings
176.
The Moon and Sixpence
The Moon and Sixpence 4.13 avg rating — 26,376 ratings
177.
The Diviners
The Diviners 4.18 avg rating — 7,915 ratings
178.
Slave: My True Story
Slave: My True Story 4.28 avg rating — 10,238 ratings
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Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,704 ratings
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