WORD

Literally my favorite bookstore in NJ. Lovely staff and always new and cool books, events, and all kinds of knickknacks

Very helpful staff. Beautiful book store with a great collection.

Excellent independent bookstore (before the rearrangement); great Americano! Try a lavender Americano, it may change your world. The Jersey City store was rearranged and appears to be on the family friendly end of things - unfortunate change given the mix of books that the store had about 2 years ago. The change send to have dinner that location well; it is usually busy with young families. The vibe is independent bookstore meets the suburbs, with a dash of too cool elitism.

Located in the pedestrian mall outside Grove street it is centrally located. Nice selection and knowledgeable staff make it a great place to go browse and buy books. Have been going there for a couple of years now and my 8 year old loves to browse and read books there.

I am not sure how customer service can be better than what WORD does. I was looking for some not-so-frequently printed mangas and the staff was keeping me up-to-date whenever a volume would arrive! many kudos!

small local book store. It's always good to have a book store in your local area while everything started to be digitized. warm cozy feeling, they have a bood reading community so that there is a chance to interact with people, and nice cafe is inside too.

It's an actual bookstore. It's probably the only one left in the city. It's a really nice place to grab a coffee and read a book. Ok manga selection, but that doesn't actually surprise me. There's kind of an intersectional feminist vibe here but it's nothing too over the top of that's not your thing, it shouldn't deter you from going by any means. Shop locally

I was a little hesitant when they showed up all fancy from BK on Newark ave but these people are Mega-Lovely!! Fun selections, great recommendations, and most importantly sweet people devoted to JC. Everyone is generally chatty and friendly in a way I wish people at the strand were. P.S. thanks be to whomever recommended 'Age of Wonder' by Richard Holmes it blew my mind - recommend me more like that/marry me!

I get all of my nieces their books here! On my last visit I took the eldest with me, she was in from out of town. It was a challenge navigating the space as they had a Trivia night set up that made it near impossible to access the books without tripping on the feet of those seated, or getting stuck behind the book shelves. Not fun. I see they expanded their offerings to sell body products which is odd, but ok. I'd love a wider selection of books + comics by Black, Caribbean authors/poets like Nayyirah Waheed to name one, but I'm sure they're working towards a wider range of diversity.

Cool little bookstore, great atmosphere, quiet little place to work.