diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 404e326..eb4fb6b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.4.4
 nose==1.3.7
-email_validator==1.1.2
+email_validator==2.2.0
 iso3166==1.0.1
 pytz==2020.4
 isbnlib==3.10.4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index eb36d1e..8eb41fc 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     test_suite='nose.collector',
     install_requires=[
         'Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.4.4',
-        'email_validator==1.1.2',
+        'email_validator==2.2.0',
         'iso3166==1.0.1',
         'pytz==2020.4',
         'isbnlib==3.10.4',