The Tacoma Book Center has a simple and rather unassuming exterior. Inside, the 16,000 square feet of space is devoted to storing books — half a million of them, in fact. If you’ve been looking for your next good read, look no further.

Tacoma Book Center is located at 324 E 26th St.

Rumples / TripAdvisor This space houses over 500,000 used books.

For 30 years, this enormous emporium has offered readers the chance to get lost in a good story.

Rumples / TripAdvisor Books are donated here daily, so you never know what you’ll find on the shelves.

This is Tacoma’s largest bookstore by far. In fact, it’s the largest independently owned used bookstore in the state.

Maureen S / TripAdvisor Their fiction collection is especially impressive.

The Tacoma Book Center has faced a few challenges in the age of the internet and Kindles, but it has persevered.

Ingrid Richter / Flickr After all, nothing can replace the musty and inviting smell and the packed shelves of a bookstore.

This is one of the few remaining bookstores in Washington that is both large in size and locally owned.

Rumples / TripAdvisor It’s owned by lifelong readers with great taste.

The Tacoma Book Center is open every day from 10 - 6.

Rumples / TripAdvisor And if you don’t see what you want on the shelves, you can always ask the team about the 7500 square foot warehouse that holds even more books.

This is certainly a unique and impressive bookstore. And if you’re ever in Bellingham, check out this one.

Rumples / TripAdvisor

This space houses over 500,000 used books.

Books are donated here daily, so you never know what you’ll find on the shelves.

Maureen S / TripAdvisor

Their fiction collection is especially impressive.

Ingrid Richter / Flickr

After all, nothing can replace the musty and inviting smell and the packed shelves of a bookstore.

It’s owned by lifelong readers with great taste.

And if you don’t see what you want on the shelves, you can always ask the team about the 7500 square foot warehouse that holds even more books.

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