diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 639a74d723..a605d81dfe 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ authors = [
 maintainers = [
   { name = "Charlie Marsh", email = "charlie.r.marsh@gmail.com" },
 ]
+readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.7"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }
 keywords = ["automation", "flake8", "pycodestyle", "pyflakes", "pylint", "clippy"]