| Badgers Books 
8-10 Gratwicke Road
WORTHING West Sussex BN11 4BH map
tel: 01903 211816
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00.
Large general secondhand stock.
A well organised shop with a very helpful proprietor and a stock of excellent quality that is always worth a visit. - Nicholas Pendower 03.01.09.
A lovely old-fashioned shop run by people who knew their subject. Very helpful with all queries. Stock on railway and local material took ages to examine. Low pricing which made me buy more than I probably should have done. Recommended. - Chris Harte 12.08.09.Excellent shop with pleasant and welcoming proprieters. Always a good selection, and reasonably priced.Excellent shop with pleasant and welcoming proprieters. Always a good selection, and reasonably priced. - Gibbonstrangler 17.08.12.
My idea of the perfect traditional secondhand bookshop. Always a lovely relaxing browsing experience with decent material at reasonable prices that makes it a pleasure to hand over the money to the friendly and helpful yet unobtrusive proprietors. - DavidC 13.09.12.
Barnardo's
10 London Road
EAST GRINSTEAD West Sussex RH19 1AG map
tel: 01342 315303
Donated books.
Now have a dedicated bookshop on the first floor of their 'normal' charity shop. Good general selection. There appears to be a healthy trend developing of the other 'main stream' charity shops playing 'catch up' with Oxfam. About time they had some competition in this sector, might even drive Oxfam's prices down, one can live in hope! - Steve Newman 16.08.11.
Billingshurst Lions Bookshop
Unit 4
Laura House Jengers Mead (off High Street)
BILLINGSHURST West Sussex RH14 9NZ map
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 4.00.
Stock mainly hardback and paperback fiction in decent condition and reasonable prices. Also a small selection of excellent home-made fruit cakes (date and walnut, Dundee etc.)! - Martin Stallion.
Don't sell cakes any more, but have a few jigsaws. Reasonably priced doesnt do justice - these books are reallyquite cheap - around 60p for a good quality paperback novel! - Paul 18.06.12.
Bookworms of Shoreham
4 High Street
SHOREHAM-BY-SEA West Sussex BN43 5DA map
tel: 01273 453856
Open: Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
Large stock and particularly, general, maritime and military history, and local topography.
A fairly ordinary bookshop with many cheap paperbacks. However, one locked case contained a wonderfully broad selection of regimental histories. If this is your interest it is worth a visit. - Chris Harte 19.08.10.
Kim's Bookshop
10 High Street
ARUNDEL West Sussex BN18 9AB map
tel: 01903 882680
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.00 & Sunday from 10.30.
Three floors of secondhand books with a large children's section, and a paperback room.
Looked good from the outside but not too much of substance on the shelves. Full of passing holidaymakers who were browsing without seemingly knowing what they wanted. Counter staff more intent on composing an email "to Alice" than bothering to look for requested generic titles. - Chris Harte 12.08.09.
This is a wonderful oldie worldy shop. They stock thousands from leathers to topography to humour to history. I LOVE the childrens room. - D. White 11.12.09.
Totally disagree with Chris Harte. Delightful shop, excellent stock. Staff helpful and was impressed with efforts to try to find the requested titles. A great range of books, well organised. - tiffjolie 11.12.09.
Lovely secondhand bookshop. Found some real gems. They even do penguin mugs! Wide range of books to choose from including art, local history, military, cookery, poetry, transport and c hildren's. Staff very helpful. Will definately be back. - Marcus True 21.12.09.
I'm afraid that this shop has become opportunistic, with prices consistently just that bit too high. I used to buy a lot of good stuff here, but a recent visit resulted in a fairly swift exit after inspecting the rather optimistic pricing. A great shame. - Pendowern 24.03.11.
I enjoyed browsing but found the prices on the high side of reasonable. Nothing that quite took my breath away but, personally, I did much better at the (many) charity shops in Bognor. - Steven 16.04.13.
Kim's Bookshop
28 South Street
CHICHESTER West Sussex PO19 1EL map
tel: 01243 778477
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.30.
Four rooms of general stock, art and topography and a paperback room.
I often go into bookshops and wonder why they bother. Shelves full of Oxfam material and all my queries were answered by: "You'll find that in our Arundel shop." - Chris Harte 12.08.09.
Great shop. Staff very helpful in assisting me, they did not have what I wanted secondhand but were able to locate it brand new. Great art selection. - Marcus Jones 11.12.09.
I managed to find a lovely range of unusal books here. Also one from their Arundel shop was brought over for me. Staff was very helpful. Fab selection of motoring for Goodwood days including rare. One of my favourite shops. - tiffjolie 11.12.09.
Great shop. Not as big as Arundel but still loads to choose from. - Marcus True 21.12.09.
Seems to be under new management but still keeping up a good standard. Well worth visiting for topography and transport. - Herne 24.02.10.
Topography is a strong suit as is the performing arts. A well laid out shop. - Herne 30.03.11.
Kim's Bookshop
7-11 Chatsworth Road
WORTHING West Sussex BN11 1LY map
tel: 01903 234566 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.30 - 5.30.
A variety of secondhand and new books. Ranging from Antiquarian to fiction, history, transport, natural history, topography and many more. Also stocking Cards, gift wrap and mugs. Opened on Saturday 8th October 2011. We can also order in new and secondhand books. Come and have a look.
I'm delighted that Kim's has returned to Worthing and look forward to visiting their new shop as a complement to my continuing visits to the wonderful Badger Books. - David Collison 21.10.11.
I would class it as a solid, straightforward, decent-sized bookshop. It's definitely lacking in traditional atmosphere but the staff are friendly. Good luck with navigating the complexities of the Worthing one-way system to park outside. - DavidC 13.09.12.
Oxfam Bookshop
23 Carfax
HORSHAM West Sussex RH12 1EB map
tel: 01403 252012
Small shop with high prices. - John Bacon 29.06.09.
Oxfam Bookshop
96a Montague Street
WORTHING West Sussex BN11 3HF map
tel: 01903 207390
Normal Oxfam fare, no bargains to be had but reasonably priced books mainly in good condition. - Steve Newman 05.08.09.
Oxfam Bookshop
2 Bayford Road
LITTLEHAMPTON West Sussex BN17 5HL map
tel: 01903 722399
Quite a small corner shop but with a reasonable selection of books at normal Oxfam prices. - Steve Newman 02.09.10.
Potters Books 
6 London Road
HASSOCKS West Sussex BN6 9NT
tel: 01273 844648 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.00.
Secondhand and ex-display books. Book search and ordering service for new, secondhand and out-of-print books. Large stock of secondhand and ex-display books available to buy.
The Book Den
Church Walk
BURGESS HILL West Sussex RH15 9AS map
Open: Monday - Friday 10.00 - 4.00, Saturday 9.00 - 4.30.
Donated secondhand books & records. Run by the Burgess Hill District Lions Club.
The Book Shop
22 High Street
EAST GRINSTEAD West Sussex RH19 3AS map
tel: 01342 322669
Open: Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.30.
A new bookshop with a growing stock of general secondhand books on the first floor.
Wheeler's Bookshop
Red Lion Street
MIDHURST West Sussex GU29 9PB map
tel: 01730 817666 e-mail web
Open: Monday - Saturday 10.00 - 5.00.
A varied stock covering a wide range of subjects. Browsers and collectors enjoy the friendly atmosphere and delight in the treasure-trove of books. Recently greatly extended into the upstairs rooms as part of our drive to accommodate even more books.
Two floors of fairly average books. Nothing antiquarian but various selections with the occasional gem. Pricing was all over the place. Chris Harte 13.10.09.
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