A tried and true gift for any book lover is a bookmark. Readers can never have enough, and they’ll be pleased to receive anything that’s not a piece of cardboard with a tassel tied to it.
These bookmarks are cute, funny, and unique. They make a great gift when combined with a book or a clever stocking stuffer. Pick out one (or two, or three!) for your favorite bookworm. They’re sure to please.
1. Zipmark Zipper Bookmarks
Colorful zipper bookmark keeps your place and makes a fun and quirky gift for any bookworm. The plastic zipper makes it look like you’ve zipped your book shut.
2. Clip On LED Booklight Bookmark
Get two gifts in one: a cool bookmark to hold their place and a convenient LED booklight to light up their page at night. Makes a fun stocking stuffer for readers.
3. Help Me! Hand Bookmarks
Another colorful set of bookmarks featuring hands. It’s the perfect way to cry for help when you’re trapped in a good book you can’t stop reading.
4. Clip it Quote Bookmarks
This is a fun set of bookmarks that makes a fantastic stocking stuffer for book lovers. With four bookmarks included, they each have humorous quotes like “I read past my bedtime” and “Just one more chapter.”
5. Leg Bookmarks
Handmade bookmarks featuring the legs of beloved characters such as the Wicked Witch of the East, Harry Potter, the Hobbit, and more.
6. Astronaut Bookmark
This unique bookmark is a must-have for science fiction fans. It features an astronaut staking his flag on a discovered planet. When it’s in the book, it looks like the astronaut is standing on the pages.
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7. “Be Right Back” Bookmark
This bookmark is perfect for any reader to mark their place in a book they can’t wait to get back to.
8. Finger Point Handy Bookmark
This bookmark points to the exact spot a reader leaves off in their book. Comes with 6 in different vibrant colors. Perfect for pleasure reading or marking textbooks.
9. Hippo Bookmark
Adorable bookmark of a hippo swimming beneath the pages. Perfect for animal lovers.
10. Sprout Leaf Bookmarks
These cute little green leaves make an adorable bookmark for any bookworm.
11. Dino & Shark Bookmarks
This is a 2-for-1! This pack comes with two bookmarks: one is a great shark and the other is a t-rex. The body goes between the pages of the book, leaving the heads peeking above like the shark and dinosaur are ready to leap out at you.
12. Metal Feather Bookmark
This is an elegant and classy bookmark. Makes a perfect gift for book lovers who read historical romance or fantasy.
13. Vintage Library Checkout Card Bookmarks
This bookmark is absolutely unique. Each is made from an actual vintage library checkout card, complete with signatures and due dates. It brings back the nostalgia from elementary school libraries. Each card is laminated and can come with or without a tassel.
14. Personalized Metal Bookmark
This is a gift that goes beyond the flimsy cardboard bookmarks found in most bookstores. This personalized bookmark is made from stainless steel and engraved with any special message or the name of your reader. This is the kind of bookmark that becomes a precious keepsake.
15. Animal Butt Bookmarks
A variety of handmade animal bookmarks as well as mythical creatures like mermaids and unicorns. You’re sure to find one of your reader’s favorite animal.
16. Abducted UFO Bookmark
This bookmark is the perfect gift for sci-fi writers. It looks like a UFO beaming up a cow. A fun way to mark your place in any science fiction book.
17. Killer Whale Bookmark
Any reader who loves the ocean will love this bookmark. This cool killer whale bookmark works so it looks like the creature is leaping out of the pages of a book like it jumps from the water.
18. Fruitmarks Fruit Bookmark
Turn any book into a cocktail! These Fruitmarks are super cute bookmarks that let you put a “wedge of fruit” on the corner of a book. Available as grapefruit, lime, orange, or lemon.
19. Bookworm Bookmark
If your loved one is a bookworm, they’ll appreciate this literal bookworm to mark their novel. This plastic bookmark curls around the pages on the corner of the book to make sure he holds your place. Super cute bookmark.
Available in blue, green, and red.
20. Metal Mermaid Bookmark
A beautiful bookmark for any reader who has dreamed of living under the sea. The tail hooks over the spine of the book as if the mermaid is diving into the story. This metal bookmark is brass colored, making it look antique.
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