diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index a422e3b8e..da80dbaf6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -32,5 +32,4 @@ jobs:
         env:
           OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
           ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
-        run: |
-          pytest tests
+        run: pytest
diff --git a/paperqa/version.py b/paperqa/version.py
index 111dc9172..d12246efa 100644
--- a/paperqa/version.py
+++ b/paperqa/version.py
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-__version__ = "4.3.0"
+from importlib.metadata import version
+
+# If you're looking to bump the version, this now
+# lives in the pyproject.toml's [project] section
+__version__ = version("paper-qa")
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4e193fb10..1990f8f09 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,45 @@
+[build-system]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+requires = ["setuptools >= 61.0"]
+
+[project]
+authors = [
+    {email = "white.d.andrew@gmail.com", name = "Andrew White"},
+]
+# Full list: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers
+classifiers = [
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python",
+]
+dependencies = [
+    "PyCryptodome",
+    "html2text",
+    "numpy",
+    "openai>=1",
+    "pydantic>=2",
+    "pypdf",
+    "tiktoken>=0.4.0",
+]
+description = "LLM Chain for answering questions from docs"
+keywords = ["question answering"]
+license = {file = "LICENSE"}
+maintainers = [
+    {email = "jamesbraza@gmail.com", name = "James Braza"},
+    {email = "white.d.andrew@gmail.com", name = "Andrew White"},
+]
+name = "paper-qa"
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
+urls = {repository = "https://github.com/whitead/paper-qa"}
+version = "4.3.0"
+
 [tool.codespell]
 check-filenames = true
 check-hidden = true
@@ -55,6 +97,13 @@ module = [
     "sentence_transformers",  # SEE: https://github.com/UKPLab/sentence-transformers/issues/1723
 ]
 
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+# List of directories that should be searched for tests when no specific directories,
+# files or test ids are given in the command line when executing pytest from the rootdir
+# directory. File system paths may use shell-style wildcards, including the recursive **
+# pattern.
+testpaths = ["tests"]
+
 [tool.ruff]
 # Line length to use when enforcing long-lines violations (like `E501`).
 line-length = 120
@@ -134,6 +183,9 @@ max-doc-length = 120  # Match line-length
 # defaults when analyzing docstring sections.
 convention = "google"
 
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+include = ["paperqa*"]
+
 [tool.tomlsort]
 all = true
 in_place = true
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6bc87745c..000000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-from setuptools import setup
-
-# for typing
-__version__ = ""
-exec(open("paperqa/version.py").read())  # noqa: S102, SIM115
-
-with open("README.md", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
-    long_description = fh.read()
-
-setup(
-    name="paper-qa",
-    version=__version__,
-    description="LLM Chain for answering questions from docs ",
-    author="Andrew White",
-    author_email="white.d.andrew@gmail.com",
-    url="https://github.com/whitead/paper-qa",
-    license="Apache License 2.0",
-    packages=["paperqa", "paperqa.contrib"],
-    package_data={"paperqa": ["py.typed"]},
-    install_requires=[
-        "pypdf",
-        "pydantic>=2",
-        "openai>=1",
-        "numpy",
-        "PyCryptodome",
-        "html2text",
-        "tiktoken>=0.4.0",
-    ],
-    test_suite="tests",
-    long_description=long_description,
-    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
-    classifiers=[
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
-        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
-    ],
-)