50 Books for 50 Years of Chorleywood Bookshop

By Chorleywood Bookshop

50 Books for 50 Years of Chorleywood Bookshop

To celebrate 50 Golden Years of Chorleywood Bookshop, we've put together a list of 50 books (one for each year of the bookshop's existence) as a way of recognising our heritage over time.

Watership Down

Richard Adams

£8.99

£8.36

The Dark is Rising

Susan Cooper

£7.99

£7.43

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John le Carre

£9.99

£9.29

High-Rise

J. G. Ballard

£8.99

£8.36

Roots

Alex Haley

£10.99

£10.22

Quartet in Autumn

Barbara Pym

£9.99

£9.29

The World According To Garp

John Irving

£9.99

£9.29

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 42nd Anniversary Edition

Douglas Adams

£9.99

£9.29

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

£9.99

£9.29

Midnight's Children: A BBC Between the Covers Big Jubilee...

Salman Rushdie

£9.99

£9.29

The Color Purple: The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel

Alice Walker

£8.99

£8.36

The Witches

Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake

£6.99

£6.50

Hotel du Lac

Anita Brookner

£8.99

£8.36

The Handmaid's Tale: the beautiful gift edition of the number...

Margaret Atwood

£8.99

£8.36

It

Stephen King

£10.99

£10.22

Beloved

Toni Morrison

£9.99

£9.29

A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

Stephen Hawking

£9.99

£9.29

The Pillars of the Earth: A Novel

Ken Follett

£10.99

£10.22

Good Omens

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

£8.99

£8.36

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Jung Chang

£10.99

£10.22

The Secret History: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of...

Donna Tartt

£9.99

£9.29

Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

£9.99

£9.29

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernieres

£9.99

£9.29

Northern Lights

Philip Pullman and Chris Wormell

£8.99

£8.36

Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding

£8.99

£8.36

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J. K. Rowling

£7.99

£7.43

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

£8.99

£8.36

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

£8.99

£8.36

White Teeth

Zadie Smith

£8.99

£8.36

The Shadow of the Wind: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

£9.99

£9.29

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold

£9.99

£9.29

Brick Lane: By the bestselling author of LOVE MARRIAGE

Monica Ali

£9.99

£9.29

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

£9.99

£9.29

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1)

Rick Riordan

£7.99

£7.43

The Thirteenth Tale

Diane Setterfield

£8.99

£8.36

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

£9.99

£9.29

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

£8.99

£8.36

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

£9.99

£9.29

Room

Emma Donoghue

£8.99

£8.36

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

£8.99

£8.36

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn

£9.99

£9.29

Life After Life: The global bestseller, now a major BBC series

Kate Atkinson

£8.99

£8.36

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

£9.99

£9.29

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

£10.99

£10.22

The Essex Serpent: Now a major Apple TV series starring...

Sarah Perry

£8.99

£8.36

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

£8.99

£8.36

Normal People: One million copies sold

Sally Rooney

£8.99

£8.36

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

Charlie Mackesy

£16.98

£15.79

The Thursday Murder Club: (The Thursday Murder Club 1)

Richard Osman

£8.99

£8.36

Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year

Kazuo Ishiguro

£8.99

£8.36