diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 19e593d..8ce8cc8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,6 +40,21 @@ dev = [
     "tokenizers>=0.22.0",
     "safetensors>=0.6.2",
 ]
+bonus = [
+    "blobfile>=3.0.0",
+    "chainlit>=1.2.0",
+    "huggingface_hub>=0.34.4",
+    "ipywidgets>=8.1.2",
+    "llms_from_scratch>=1.0.18",
+    "openai>=1.30.3",
+    "requests",
+    "safetensors>=0.6.2",
+    "scikit-learn>=1.3.1",
+    "sentencepiece>=0.1.99",
+    "tokenizers>=0.21.1",
+    "transformers>=4.33.2",
+    "tqdm>=4.65.0",
+]
 
 [tool.ruff]
 line-length = 140
diff --git a/setup/01_optional-python-setup-preferences/README.md b/setup/01_optional-python-setup-preferences/README.md
index 705da40..b71937c 100644
--- a/setup/01_optional-python-setup-preferences/README.md
+++ b/setup/01_optional-python-setup-preferences/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ There are several ways to install Python and set up your computing environment.
 
 <br>
 
-> **Note:** 
+> **Note:**
 > If you are running any of the notebooks on Google Colab and want to install the dependencies, simply run the following code in a new cell at the top of the notebook and skip the rest of this tutorial:
 > `pip install uv && uv pip install --system -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/refs/heads/main/requirements.txt`
 
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ To install all required packages from a `requirements.txt` file (such as the one
 uv pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 
+
 Alternatively, install the latest dependencies directly from the repository:
 
 ```bash
@@ -168,6 +169,13 @@ uv pip install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/refs
 > or
 > `pip install -U -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/refs/heads/main/requirements.txt`
 
+&nbsp;
+
+> **Optional dependencies for bonus materials:**
+> To include the optional dependencies used throughout the bonus materials, install the `bonus` dependency group from the project root:
+>  `uv pip install --group bonus --editable .`
+> This is useful if you don't want to install them separately as you check out the optional bonus materials later on.
+
 <br>
 
 **Finalizing the setup**
diff --git a/setup/README.md b/setup/README.md
index 78b9940..20d6303 100644
--- a/setup/README.md
+++ b/setup/README.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ pip install -r requirements.txt
 
 > **Note:** If you are running any of the notebooks on Google Colab and want to install the dependencies, simply run the following code in a new cell at the top of the notebook:
 > `pip install uv && uv pip install --system -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch/refs/heads/main/requirements.txt`
+> Optionally, after cloning the repository, you install the dependencies for all bonus materials with `uv pip install --group bonus --editable .` from the project root. This is useful if you don't want to install them separately as you check out the optional bonus materials later on.