You can check out the Best Books of 2025 from our Lucky Day Collection!

Find the Best Books of 2025 on a "Lucky Day" shelf at your local library!

Inside every Tacoma Public Library location, there exists a magical shelf holding titles from our Lucky Day collection. The Lucky Day collection features highly popular books available for immediate checkout—meaning you can skip the hold queues and check them out on the spot! Since it's the end of 2025, everyone is talking about the best books of the year. Publications like The New York Times, opens a new window, NPR, opens a new window, Barnes and Noble, opens a new window, TIME, opens a new window, and more have published their best of lists for 2025, many of which are in our Lucky Day collection and ready to be checked out by a lucky patron like you.

Our newest Lucky Day title, Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, is featured on more than six lists! Other Lucky Day titles on multiple lists include: 

Atmosphere: A Love Story

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

The Dream Hotel

Wild Dark Shore

The Emperor of Gladness

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Heart the Lover

A Marriage at Sea

Katabasis

Sunrise on the Reaping

As a reminder, Lucky Day books allow you to skip the holds queue and immediately checkout popular books across genre and author. If you find a book on the Lucky Day shelf, you can immediately check it out even when there are multiple holds on the title.

To see which books are on Lucky Day, go to the Advanced Search in our catalog. Choose the drop down option for Call Number, type in Lucky Day, and hit search. Search | Tacoma Public Library | BiblioCommons

It’s your Lucky Day!