diff --git a/tiktoken-rs/Cargo.toml b/tiktoken-rs/Cargo.toml
index a42068b..326b8a4 100644
--- a/tiktoken-rs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tiktoken-rs/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "tiktoken-rs"
 version = "0.4.3"
 description = "Library for encoding and decoding with the tiktoken library in Rust"
 rust-version = "1.57.0"
-include = ["assets/**/*", "src/**/*"]
+include = ["assets/**/*", "src/**/*", "README.md"]
 edition.workspace = true
 keywords.workspace = true
 authors.workspace = true