diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f35463d..ed07deb 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,19 +17,20 @@ bench = false
 
 [features]
 default = ["compression"]
-compression = ["bzip2", "flate2", "xz2"]
+compression = ["bzip2", "flate2", "xz2", "zstd"]
 python = ["pyo3/extension-module"]
 python_test = ["pyo3"]
 xz2 = ["liblzma"]
 
 [dependencies]
-buffer-redux = { version = "1", default_features = false }
+buffer-redux = { version = "1", default-features = false }
 bytecount = { version = "0.6", features = ["runtime-dispatch-simd"] }
 bzip2 = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
 flate2 = { version = "1.0.30", optional = true }
 memchr = "2.7.2"
 pyo3 = { version = "0.21.2", optional = true }
 liblzma = { version = "0.3.1", optional = true }
+zstd = { version = "0.13.2", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 criterion = "0.5"
diff --git a/src/parser/mod.rs b/src/parser/mod.rs
index 2394df3..9c70bf7 100644
--- a/src/parser/mod.rs
+++ b/src/parser/mod.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ use bzip2::read::BzDecoder;
 use flate2::read::MultiGzDecoder;
 #[cfg(feature = "xz2")]
 use liblzma::read::XzDecoder;
+#[cfg(feature = "zstd")]
+use zstd::stream::read::Decoder as ZstdDecoder;
 
 use crate::errors::ParseError;
 pub use crate::parser::fasta::Reader as FastaReader;
@@ -29,6 +31,8 @@ const GZ_MAGIC: [u8; 2] = [0x1F, 0x8B];
 const BZ_MAGIC: [u8; 2] = [0x42, 0x5A];
 #[cfg(feature = "xz2")]
 const XZ_MAGIC: [u8; 2] = [0xFD, 0x37];
+#[cfg(feature = "zstd")]
+const ZST_MAGIC: [u8; 2] = [0x28, 0xB5];
 
 fn get_fastx_reader<'a, R: 'a + io::Read + Send>(
     reader: R,
@@ -43,7 +47,7 @@ fn get_fastx_reader<'a, R: 'a + io::Read + Send>(
 
 /// The main entry point of needletail if you're reading from something that implements [`std::io::Read`].
 /// This automatically detects whether the file is:
-/// 1. compressed: [`gzip`][gzip], [`bz`][bz] and [`xz`][xz] are supported and will use the appropriate decoder
+/// 1. compressed: [`gzip`][gzip], [`bz`][bz], [`xz`][xz], and [`zstd`][zstd] are supported and will use the appropriate decoder
 /// 2. FASTA or FASTQ: the right parser will be automatically instantiated
 ///
 /// Option 1 is only available if the `compression` feature is enabled.
@@ -76,6 +80,7 @@ fn get_fastx_reader<'a, R: 'a + io::Read + Send>(
 /// [gzip]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/
 /// [bz]: https://sourceware.org/bzip2/
 /// [xz]: https://tukaani.org/xz/format.html
+/// [zstd]: https://facebook.github.io/zstd/
 ///
 pub fn parse_fastx_reader<'a, R: 'a + io::Read + Send>(
     mut reader: R,
@@ -112,6 +117,14 @@ pub fn parse_fastx_reader<'a, R: 'a + io::Read + Send>(
             let r = Cursor::new(first).chain(xz_reader);
             get_fastx_reader(r, first[0])
         }
+        #[cfg(feature = "zstd")]
+        ZST_MAGIC => {
+            let mut zst_reader = ZstdDecoder::new(new_reader)?;
+            let mut first = [0; 1];
+            zst_reader.read_exact(&mut first)?;
+            let r = Cursor::new(first).chain(zst_reader);
+            get_fastx_reader(r, first[0])
+        }
         _ => get_fastx_reader(new_reader, first_two_bytes[0]),
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/data/test.fa.zst b/tests/data/test.fa.zst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f58502
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/data/test.fa.zst differ
diff --git a/tests/test_compressed.rs b/tests/test_compressed.rs
index c1141b2..0c6ec85 100644
--- a/tests/test_compressed.rs
+++ b/tests/test_compressed.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 use needletail::parse_fastx_file;
 
-const TEST_FILES: [&str; 3] = [
+const TEST_FILES: [&str; 4] = [
     "./tests/data/test.fa.gz",
     "./tests/data/test.fa.bz2",
     "./tests/data/test.fa.xz",
+    "./tests/data/test.fa.zst",
 ];
 
 #[cfg(feature = "compression")]
diff --git a/tests/test_stdin.rs b/tests/test_stdin.rs
index 9401f41..9319a4e 100644
--- a/tests/test_stdin.rs
+++ b/tests/test_stdin.rs
@@ -90,6 +90,33 @@ fn test_stdin_bzip() {
         .stdout(contains("There are 0 AAAAs in your file"));
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "compression")]
+#[test]
+fn test_stdin_zstd() {
+    // Generated with `echo ">id1\nAGTCGTCA" | zstd -c | xxd  -i`
+    let input: &[u8] = &[
+        0x28, 0xb5, 0x2f, 0xfd, 0x04, 0x58, 0x71, 0x00, 0x00, 0x3e, 0x69, 0x64, 0x31, 0x0a, 0x41,
+        0x47, 0x54, 0x43, 0x47, 0x54, 0x43, 0x41, 0x0a, 0x52, 0x9d, 0x37, 0x8d,
+    ];
+    let mut file = tempfile::NamedTempFile::new().unwrap();
+    file.write_all(input).unwrap();
+    file.flush().unwrap();
+    file.seek(SeekFrom::Start(0)).unwrap();
+
+    escargot::CargoBuild::new()
+        .example("stdin_pipe")
+        .current_release()
+        .current_target()
+        .run()
+        .unwrap()
+        .command()
+        .stdin(file.into_file())
+        .assert()
+        .success()
+        .stdout(contains("There are 8 bases in your file"))
+        .stdout(contains("There are 0 AAAAs in your file"));
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn test_stdin_no_compression() {
     let input: &[u8] = b">id1\nAGTCGTCA";