diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/histbook/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/histbook/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c9ea7010a6f0..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/histbook/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, numpy, pandas }:
-
-buildPythonPackage rec {
-  pname = "histbook";
-  version = "1.2.5";
-
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    inherit pname version;
-    sha256 = "76d1f143f8abccf5539029fbef8133db84f377fc7752ac9e7e6d19ac9a277967";
-  };
-
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ numpy pandas ];
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    homepage = https://github.com/scikit-hep/histbook;
-    description = "Versatile, high-performance histogram toolkit for Numpy";
-    license = licenses.bsd3;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ veprbl ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 3a045f330eba..8d6f0c1a5d86 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -717,8 +717,6 @@ in {
 
   helper = callPackage ../development/python-modules/helper { };
 
-  histbook = callPackage ../development/python-modules/histbook { };
-
   hdmedians = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hdmedians { };
 
   hocr-tools = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hocr-tools { };