diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
index a9e047170e2..9b1c99c3eed 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/calibre/default.nix
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     poppler_utils libpng imagemagick libjpeg
     fontconfig podofo qtbase chmlib icu sqlite libusb1 libmtp xdg_utils wrapGAppsHook
   ] ++ (with python2Packages; [
-    apsw cssselect cssutils dateutil dnspython html5-parser lxml mechanize netifaces pillow
+    apsw cssselect css-parser dateutil dnspython html5-parser lxml mechanize netifaces pillow
     python pyqt5_with_qtwebkit sip
     regex msgpack
     # the following are distributed with calibre, but we use upstream instead
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/css-parser/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/css-parser/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8b2fe0929c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/css-parser/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "css-parser";
+  version = "1.0.4";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "c7ab355512ae51334ba6791a7e4d553f87bef17ba2026f1cc9bf3b17a7779d44";
+  };
+
+  # Test suite not included in tarball yet
+  # See https://github.com/ebook-utils/css-parser/pull/2
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "A CSS Cascading Style Sheets library for Python";
+    homepage = https://github.com/ebook-utils/css-parser;
+    license = licenses.lgpl3Plus;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ jethro ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 983e5b814fb..657e1cb4330 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -1523,6 +1523,8 @@ in {
 
   cssutils = callPackage ../development/python-modules/cssutils { };
 
+  css-parser = callPackage ../development/python-modules/css-parser { };
+
   darcsver = callPackage ../development/python-modules/darcsver { };
 
   dask = callPackage ../development/python-modules/dask { };