I must try to get hold of it, as I too loved
84, Charing Cross Road. I loved the film too.
I would like to nominate
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald. From Goodreads:
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In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.
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Prices from Kobo: $A9.99, $US2.99, $C11.99,￡5.99. 163 pages.
This made the shortlist for the Booker Prize back in 1978 or so. Fitzgerald is not an author I know, but having read up about her, I need to rectify that!