diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/isbnlib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/isbnlib/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1d16265242a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/isbnlib/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, nose
+, coverage
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "isbnlib";
+  version = "3.9.4";
+
+  # PyPI tarball is missing LICENSE file
+  # See https://github.com/xlcnd/isbnlib/pull/53
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "xlcnd";
+    repo = "isbnlib";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "0gc0k5khf34b4zz56a9zc3rscdhj3bx849lbzgmzpji30sbyy1fh";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    nose
+    coverage
+  ];
+
+  # requires network connection
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Extract, clean, transform, hyphenate and metadata for ISBNs";
+    homepage = https://github.com/xlcnd/isbnlib;
+    license = licenses.lgpl3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ dotlambda ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 94253962ba15..6d672834dd3b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1879,6 +1879,8 @@ in {
 
   ipfsapi = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ipfsapi { };
 
+  isbnlib = callPackage ../development/python-modules/isbnlib { };
+
   itsdangerous = callPackage ../development/python-modules/itsdangerous { };
 
   iniparse = callPackage ../development/python-modules/iniparse { };