diff --git a/src/lib-voyager.test.ui.tsx b/src/lib-voyager.test.ui.tsx
index 9e0dc78ff..9c0c6d075 100644
--- a/src/lib-voyager.test.ui.tsx
+++ b/src/lib-voyager.test.ui.tsx
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@
 
 import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
 import {CreateVoyager} from './lib-voyager';
-import {SerializableState} from './models/index';
-
+import {Bookmark, DEFAULT_BOOKMARK} from './models/bookmark';
+import {
+  DEFAULT_PERSISTENT_STATE, DEFAULT_UNDOABLE_STATE,
+  SerializableState, State, toSerializable
+} from './models/index';
 const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_LENGTH = 300;
 
 describe('lib-voyager', () => {
@@ -145,6 +148,49 @@ describe('lib-voyager', () => {
 
   });
 
+  describe('getBookmarkedSpecs', () => {
+    it('returns bookmarked vega-lite specs', done => {
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        try {
+          const spec1 = '{"data":{"name":"source"},"mark":"bar","encoding":{"y":{"field":"Name","type":"nominal",'
+            + '"scale":{"rangeStep":12}}, "x":{"aggregate":"count","field":"*","type":"quantitative",'
+            + '"axis":{"orient":"top"}}}, "config":{"overlay":{"line":true},"scale":{"useUnaggregatedDomain":true}}}';
+          const spec2 = '{"data":{"name":"source"},"mark":"bar","encoding":{"y":{"field":"Cylinders","type":"nominal"},'
+            + '"x":{"aggregate":"count","field":"*","type":"quantitative"}},'
+            + '"config":{"overlay":{"line":true},"scale":{"useUnaggregatedDomain":true}}}';
+          const voyagerInst = CreateVoyager(container, undefined, undefined);
+          const customBookmarks: Bookmark = {
+            ...DEFAULT_BOOKMARK,
+            list: [spec1, spec2]
+          };
+
+          const customState: State = {
+            persistent: {
+              ...DEFAULT_PERSISTENT_STATE,
+              bookmark: customBookmarks
+            },
+            undoable: {...DEFAULT_UNDOABLE_STATE}
+          };
+
+          voyagerInst.setApplicationState(toSerializable(customState));
+
+          setTimeout(() => {
+            try {
+              const bookmarkedSpecs: string[] = voyagerInst.getBookmarkedSpecs();
+              expect(bookmarkedSpecs).toEqual([spec1, spec2]);
+              done();
+            } catch (err) {
+              done.fail(err);
+            }
+          }, DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_LENGTH);
+
+        } catch (err) {
+          done.fail(err);
+        }
+
+      }, DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_LENGTH);
+    });
+  });
 
   describe('vega-lite spec', () => {
     it('accepts valid spec', done => {
@@ -376,5 +422,4 @@ describe('lib-voyager', () => {
 
     }, DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_LENGTH);
   });
-
 });
diff --git a/src/lib-voyager.tsx b/src/lib-voyager.tsx
index 62b12e26c..f0353c72d 100644
--- a/src/lib-voyager.tsx
+++ b/src/lib-voyager.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import * as draft4Schemas from 'ajv/lib/refs/json-schema-draft-04.json';
 import 'font-awesome-sass-loader'; // TODO should this move to App?
 import * as React from 'react';
 import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
-import { Provider } from 'react-redux';
+import {Provider} from 'react-redux';
 import {Store} from 'redux';
 import {Data} from 'vega-lite/build/src/data';
 import {FacetedCompositeUnitSpec, isUnitSpec, TopLevel, TopLevelExtendedSpec} from 'vega-lite/build/src/spec';
@@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ import {State} from './models';
 import {DEFAULT_VOYAGER_CONFIG, VoyagerConfig} from './models/config';
 import {fromSerializable, SerializableState, toSerializable} from './models/index';
 import {selectData} from './selectors/dataset';
+import {selectBookmark} from './selectors/index';
 import {selectMainSpec} from './selectors/result';
 import {configureStore} from './store';
 
 
+
 export type Container = string | HTMLElement;
 
 /**
@@ -169,6 +171,18 @@ export class Voyager {
     return spec;
   }
 
+  /**
+   *
+   * Gets the current bookmarked vega-lite specs.
+   *
+   * @returns {string[]}
+   *
+   * @memberof Voyager
+   */
+  public getBookmarkedSpecs(): string[] {
+    return selectBookmark(this.store.getState()).list;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Subscribe to state changes.
    *