diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/clojure/tools/reader_types.clj b/src/babashka/impl/clojure/tools/reader_types.clj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c88f036d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/clojure/tools/reader_types.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+(ns babashka.impl.clojure.tools.reader-types
+  (:require [clojure.tools.reader.edn :as edn]
+            [clojure.tools.reader.reader-types :as rt]
+            [sci.core :as sci]))
+
+(def edn-namespace {'read-string (sci/copy-var edn/read-string (sci/create-ns 'clojure.tools.reader.edn))})
+
+(def rtns (sci/create-ns 'clojure.tools.reader.reader-types))
+
+(def reader-types-namespace {'indexing-reader? (sci/copy-var rt/indexing-reader? rtns)
+                             'get-line-number (sci/copy-var rt/get-line-number rtns)
+                             'get-column-number (sci/copy-var rt/get-column-number rtns)
+                             'peek-char (sci/copy-var rt/peek-char rtns)
+                             'read-char (sci/copy-var rt/read-char rtns)
+                             'unread (sci/copy-var rt/unread rtns)
+                             'source-logging-push-back-reader (sci/copy-var rt/source-logging-push-back-reader rtns)})
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index 5b30a290..3c6e1d2c 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
    [babashka.impl.clojure.main :as clojure-main :refer [demunge]]
    [babashka.impl.clojure.math :refer [math-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.clojure.stacktrace :refer [stacktrace-namespace]]
+   [babashka.impl.clojure.tools.reader-types :refer [edn-namespace reader-types-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.clojure.zip :refer [zip-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.common :as common]
    [babashka.impl.core  :as bbcore]
@@ -369,6 +370,8 @@ Use bb run --help to show this help output.
        'clojure.core.server clojure-core-server-namespace
        'babashka.deps deps-namespace
        'babashka.tasks tasks-namespace
+       'clojure.tools.reader.edn edn-namespace
+       'clojure.tools.reader.reader-types reader-types-namespace
        'clojure.core.async async-namespace
        'clojure.core.async.impl.protocols async-protocols-namespace
        'rewrite-clj.node rewrite/node-namespace