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WORD Bookstores

Brooklyn, NY & Jersey City, NJ

Woman-Owned
WORD has two bookstores: one in Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of Brooklyn, that opened in March of 2007, and one in Jersey City, which opened in December 2013. Our primary goal is to be whatever our communities need us to be!

Staff Picks

Updated monthly with the books our staff is most excited about at the moment.

On sale
Girly Drinks by Mallory O'Meara
The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern by Rita Zoey Chin
Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse by Chantel Acevedo
Bookseller pick
Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson
Love Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura
Bookseller pick
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
The Last Resort by Sarah Stodola
Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman
Acceptance by Emi Nietfeld
Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Bookseller pick
Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
Bookseller pick
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
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