diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fcc6530..9062d9d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ GitHub.jl implements a bunch of methods that make REST requests to GitHub's API.
 | `remove_collaborator(repo, user)`                        | `HTTP.Response`                | [remove `user` as a collaborator from `repo`](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/collaborators/#remove-collaborator)                         |
 | `collaborator_permission(repo, user)`                    | `HTTP.Response`                | [get the `repo` permission of a collaborator](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/collaborators/#get-repository-permissions-for-a-user)       |
 | `stats(repo, stat[, attempts = 3])`                      | `HTTP.Response`                | [get information on `stat` (e.g. "contributors", "code_frequency", "commit_activity", etc.)](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statistics/) |
+| `topics(repo)`                                           | `Vector{String}`               | [get the list of topics of a repository.)](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/repos#get-all-repository-topics) |
+| `set_topics(repo, topics)`                               | `Vector{String}`               | [set the list of topics of a repository.)](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/repos#replace-all-repository-topics) |
 | `commit(repo, sha)`                                      | `Commit`                       | [get the commit specified by `sha`](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits/#get-a-single-commit)                                         |
 | `commits(repo)`                                          | `Tuple{Vector{Commit}, Dict}`  | [get `repo`'s commits](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits/#list-commits-on-a-repository)                                             |
 | `branch(repo, branch)`                                   | `Branch`                       | [get the branch specified by `branch`](https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#get-branch)                                                       |
diff --git a/src/GitHub.jl b/src/GitHub.jl
index cda2cb3..82ebdf2 100644
--- a/src/GitHub.jl
+++ b/src/GitHub.jl
@@ -126,7 +126,9 @@ export # repositories.jl
        add_collaborator,
        remove_collaborator,
        collaborator_permission,
-       stats
+       stats,
+       topics,
+       set_topics
 
 export # contents.jl
        Content,
diff --git a/src/repositories/repositories.jl b/src/repositories/repositories.jl
index 57cd2f6..43b25b8 100644
--- a/src/repositories/repositories.jl
+++ b/src/repositories/repositories.jl
@@ -130,3 +130,17 @@ end
     end
     return r
 end
+
+# topics #
+#--------#
+
+@api_default function topics(api::GitHubAPI, repo; options...)
+    results, page_data = gh_get_paged_json(api, "/repos/$(name(repo))/topics"; options...)
+    return convert(Vector{String}, results["names"]), page_data
+end
+
+@api_default function set_topics(api::GitHubAPI, repo, topics; options...)
+    result = gh_put_json(api, "/repos/$(name(repo))/topics";
+                         params=Dict("names" => topics), options...)
+    return convert(Vector{String}, result["names"])
+end
diff --git a/test/read_only_api_tests.jl b/test/read_only_api_tests.jl
index 391b371..df51fcd 100644
--- a/test/read_only_api_tests.jl
+++ b/test/read_only_api_tests.jl
@@ -249,3 +249,14 @@ end
     @test repo_license_obj.path == "LICENSE.md"
     @test repo_license_obj.typ == "file"
 end
+
+@testset "Topics" begin
+    # test GitHub.topics
+    topics_obj, page_data = topics(ghjl; auth = auth)
+    @test typeof(topics_obj) == Vector{String}
+    @test length(topics_obj) == 0
+
+    # also test on a repository that _does_ have topics
+    topics_obj, page_data = topics("JuliaLang/julia"; auth = auth)
+    @test length(topics_obj) > 0
+end