Bookmarks is a bimonthly American literary magazine dedicated to general readers, book groups, and librarians. It carries the tagline, "For everyone who hasn't read everything." Launched in 2002, Bookmarks summarizes and distills published book reviews and includes articles covering classic and contemporary authors, "best-of" genre reading lists, reader recommendations, and book group profiles. It was named a "Best New Magazine" shortly after its debut by Library Journal1.
Kurt Vonnegut also weighed in on one of the earlier issues; the September/October 2003 issue, which featured a profile on Vonnegut's life and works, prompted him to describe Bookmarks as "the first publication to summarize my career as a writer." "I am beguiled by your physical beauty," he continued, "and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write. News of the hour indeed!"
Issue contents, 2002-present
| Issue |
Spotlight |
Spotlight |
Expert Picks |
| May/June 2008, No. 34 |
Literary Nonfiction |
Peter Carey / Steven Millhauser |
Presidential Biographies |
| Mar/Apr 2008, No. 33 |
D. H. Lawrence |
Geraldine Brooks / Sue Miller |
Tudor Dynasty |
| Jan/Feb 2008, No. 32 |
Ha Jin |
Richard Russo |
Globalization |
| Nov/Dec 2007, No. 31 |
Isabel Allende |
Edwidge Danticat |
World War II |
Beyond Harry Potter II: Best Mysteries for Younger Readers |
| Sept/Oct 2007, No. 30 |
James Joyce |
R. K. Narayan |
Investing |
| July/Aug 2007, No. 29 |
The Best Mysteries and Crime Novels, Vol. II |
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U.S. Civil Rights Movement |
| May/June 2007, No. 28 |
Beat Generation |
Emile Zola |
Learning Guitar |
| Mar/Apr 2007, No. 27 |
Wallace Stegner |
Hermann Hesse |
Opera |
| Jan/Feb 2007, No. 26 |
Beating the Book Group Blues |
A. S. Byatt |
U.S. Space Program |
| Nov/Dec 2006, No. 25 |
Anne Tyler |
Naguib Mahfouz |
Landmark Court Cases |
| Sept/Oct 2006, No. 24 |
Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Richard Powers |
Career Changes |
| July/Aug 2006, No. 23 |
101 Crackerjack Sea Books |
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North Korea |
| May/June 2006, No. 22 |
Amos Oz |
20th-Century American Short Story: Katherine Anne Porter, John Cheever, Raymond Carver |
Espionage |
| Mar/Apr 2006, No. 21 |
Henry James |
Percival Everett |
French Revolution |
| Jan/Feb 2006, No. 20 |
Best Historical Fiction |
George Eliot |
Brain and Consciousness |
| Nov/Dec 2005, No. 19 |
Louisa May Alcott |
Franz Kafka |
Cookbooks |
| Sept/Oct 2005, No. 18 |
John Updike |
Yukio Mishima |
Ancient Greece |
| July/Aug 2005, No. 17 |
Saul Bellow |
Madeleine L'Engle |
Magic |
| May/June 2005, No. 16 |
Thomas Hardy |
Investigative Journalism: Contemporary Classics |
Travel Adventure Books |
| March/Apr 2005, No. 15 |
Southern Women Writers: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor |
Mario Vargas Llosa |
True crime |
2004 Cookbooks |
| Jan/Feb 2005, No. 14 |
E. M. Forster |
Albert Camus |
New Year's Resolutions |
| Nov/Dec 2004, No. 13 |
Brontë Sisters: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, |
Great Mystery Series |
Games |
| Sept/Oct 2004, No. 12 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
The Best Graphic Novels |
Wine |
| July/Aug 2004, No. 11 |
George Orwell |
Edith Wharton |
Art of Illustration |
| May/June 2004, No. 10 |
Leo Tolstoy |
Pre-Civil Rights Voices: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin |
American West |
| March/Apr 2004, No. 9 |
William Faulkner |
Doris Lessing |
Gardening |
| Jan/Feb 2004, No. 8 |
Jane Austen |
J. M. Coetzee |
Writing |
| Nov/Dec 2003, No. 7 |
Ernest Hemingway |
Best American Biographies |
Jazz |
| Sept/Oct 2003, No. 6 |
Kurt Vonnegut |
Toni Morrison |
Yoga |
| July/Aug 2003, No. 5 |
Philip Roth |
Evelyn Waugh |
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Life Beyond Harry Potter |
| May/June 2003, No. 4 |
Mark Twain |
Joyce Carol Oates |
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Books in a Time of War |
| Mar/Apr 2003, No. 3 |
Virginia Woolf |
Cookbooks |
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| Jan/Feb 2003, No. 2 |
Walker Percy |
Gabriel García Márquez |
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| Nov/Dec 2002, No. 1 |
Carol Shields |
Charles Dickens |
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| Summer 2002, Preview |
John Steinbeck |
V. S. Naipaul |
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