Joy & Matt’s Books is a “brick and mortar” store in Cincinnati. This is a new trend in retail, providing a physical space for discovery and staffed by people who love their product, in this case books. If you are looking for more than a transaction visit us at 915 Vine St. Mon-Sat 11-6 & Sun 12-3.
Subscribe to our newsletter!
Book reviews and announcements:
- Reading Kafka in 2025
- The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- “I’m not a Lamanite, I’m Chippewa”
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Please Note: the following lists do not represent current inventory in the store, there may be some titles that we sold out of recently and won’t have for a week or two.
To find out if we have a specific title in the store please call 513-427-3413 or email books@Joyandmatts.com.
We don’t sell online but are an affiliate of Bookshop, an online bookselling website, if you would like to order online and have books delivered to your home while still supporting independent books stores, clicking one of the links below will take you to their website.
“The job of the curator is to develop a coherent body of objects…The value of curation is not telling you what to consume; it is giving you a holistic education and insight into how things work; into the context of objects or ideas. It involves vast amounts of labor and time…”
Kyle Chayka, The Ezra Klein Show, January 9, 2024