diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5fcfc355..05766c4e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 with open(version_filename, mode="r", encoding="utf-8") as fobj:
     for line in fobj:
         if "__version__ =" in line:
-            version = line.strip().split("=")[-1].strip()
+            version = line.strip().split("=")[-1].strip().replace('"', '')
 
 utils_requirements = ["requests", "requests-cache", "tqdm"]
 EXTRA_REQUIREMENTS = {