diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 314eb19..2631cec 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 # mkdocs-table-reader-plugin
 
-[MkDocs](https://www.mkdocs.org/) plugin that adds a `{{ read_csv('table.csv') }}` markdown tag to directly insert CSV files as a table into a page. Other supported table file formats are excel (`.xls`, `.xlsx`), fixed-width (`.fwf`), and yaml (`.yaml`).
+[MkDocs](https://www.mkdocs.org/) plugin that adds a `{{ read_csv('table.csv') }}` markdown tag to directly insert CSV files as a table into a page. Other supported table file formats are excel (`.xls`, `.xlsx`), fixed-width (`.fwf`), json (`.json`) and yaml (`.yaml`).
 
 > For a workflow with other plugins see the blogpost [building reproducible reports with MkDocs](https://timvink.nl/reproducible-reports-with-mkdocs/)
 
diff --git a/docs/readers.md b/docs/readers.md
index f9bb3c3..ea7890a 100644
--- a/docs/readers.md
+++ b/docs/readers.md
@@ -58,6 +58,18 @@ The following table reader functions are available:
 
     {{ read_table('tables/basic_table.csv', sep = ',') }}
 
+## read_json
+
+`{{ read_json() }}` passed to [pandas.read_json()](https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.read_json.html). Example:
+
+=== "Input"
+
+    <code>\{\{ read_json('tables/data.json') \}\}</code>
+
+=== "Output"
+
+    {{ read_json('tables/data.json') }}
+
 
 ## read_excel
 
diff --git a/mkdocs_table_reader_plugin/plugin.py b/mkdocs_table_reader_plugin/plugin.py
index 61f1c84..7ba8596 100644
--- a/mkdocs_table_reader_plugin/plugin.py
+++ b/mkdocs_table_reader_plugin/plugin.py
@@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ def read_fwf(*args, **kwargs):
     
     return df.to_markdown(**markdown_kwargs)
 
+def read_json(*args, **kwargs):
+    read_kwargs = kwargs_in_func(kwargs, pd.read_json)
+    df = pd.read_json(*args, **read_kwargs)
+
+    markdown_kwargs = kwargs_not_in_func(kwargs, pd.read_json)
+    if "tablefmt" not in markdown_kwargs:
+        markdown_kwargs["tablefmt"] = "pipe"
+    
+    return df.to_markdown(**markdown_kwargs)
+
 
 def read_excel(*args, **kwargs):
     read_kwargs = kwargs_in_func(kwargs, pd.read_excel)
@@ -96,6 +106,7 @@ def read_yaml(*args, **kwargs):
     "read_fwf": read_fwf,
     "read_excel": read_excel,
     "read_yaml": read_yaml,
+    "read_json": read_json,
 }
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8cc2590..d32794d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="mkdocs-table-reader-plugin",
-    version="1.1.1",
+    version="1.2",
     description="MkDocs plugin to directly insert tables from files into markdown.",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/basic_setup/assets/tables/data.json b/tests/fixtures/basic_setup/assets/tables/data.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d9d05c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/basic_setup/assets/tables/data.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+    "columns":["col 1","col 2"],
+    "index":["row 1","row 2"],
+    "data":[["a","1234json"],["c","d"]]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/basic_setup/docs/page_read_json.md b/tests/fixtures/basic_setup/docs/page_read_json.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72a0fc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/basic_setup/docs/page_read_json.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# JSON
+
+## read_json
+
+The latest numbers using `read_json()`:
+
+{{ read_json('assets/tables/data.json', orient='split') }}
diff --git a/tests/test_build.py b/tests/test_build.py
index 32c8682..5afa5ac 100644
--- a/tests/test_build.py
+++ b/tests/test_build.py
@@ -128,6 +128,11 @@ def test_table_output(tmp_path):
     assert re.search(r"531456", contents)
     assert re.search(r"table1", contents)
 
+    # Make sure with markdown tag has the output
+    page_with_tag = tmp_proj / "site/page_read_json.html"
+    contents = page_with_tag.read_text()
+    assert re.search(r"1234json", contents)
+
     # Make sure multiple tags are supported
     page_with_tag = tmp_proj / "site/page_read_two_csv.html"
     contents = page_with_tag.read_text()