diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 91f0765..5bf0905 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,48 +1,54 @@
 """
 Py-Tree-sitter
 """
 
-
+import os
 import platform
 from setuptools import setup, Extension
 
+base_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+
+with open(os.path.join(base_dir, 'README.md')) as f:
+    long_description = f.read()
 
 setup(
     name = "tree_sitter",
     version = "0.0.8",
     maintainer = "Max Brunsfeld",
     maintainer_email = "maxbrunsfeld@gmail.com",
     author = "Max Brunsfeld",
     author_email = "maxbrunsfeld@gmail.com",
     url = "https://github.com/tree-sitter/py-tree-sitter",
     license = "MIT",
     platforms = ["any"],
     python_requires = ">=3.3",
     description = "Python bindings to the Tree-sitter parsing library",
+    long_description = long_description,
+    long_description_content_type = "text/markdown",
     classifiers = [
         "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
         "Topic :: Software Development :: Compilers",
         "Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic",
     ],
     packages = ['tree_sitter'],
     ext_modules = [
         Extension(
             "tree_sitter_binding",
             [
                 "tree_sitter/core/lib/src/lib.c",
                 "tree_sitter/binding.c",
             ],
             include_dirs = [
                 "tree_sitter/core/lib/include",
                 "tree_sitter/core/lib/utf8proc",
             ],
             extra_compile_args = (
                 ['-std=c99'] if platform.system() != 'Windows' else None
             )
         )
     ],
     project_urls = {
         'Source': 'https://github.com/tree-sitter/py-tree-sitter',
         'Documentation': 'http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/',
     }
 )