diff --git a/types/read-pkg-up/index.d.ts b/types/read-pkg-up/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for read-pkg-up 2.0
+// Project: https://github.com/sindresorhus/read-pkg-up
+// Definitions by: Louis Orleans <https://github.com/dudeofawesome>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+declare namespace ReadPkgUp {
+    function sync(options?: Options): Package;
+
+    interface Options {
+        /**
+         * Directory to start looking for a package.json file.
+         *
+         * @default 'process.cwd()'
+         */
+        cwd?: string;
+        /**
+         * [Normalize](https://github.com/npm/normalize-package-data#what-normalization-currently-entails) the package data.
+         *
+         * @default true
+         */
+        normalize?: boolean;
+    }
+
+    interface Package {
+        [key: string]: any;
+    }
+}
+
+declare function ReadPkgUp(options?: ReadPkgUp.Options): Promise<ReadPkgUp.Package>;
+
+export = ReadPkgUp;
diff --git a/types/read-pkg-up/read-pkg-up-tests.ts b/types/read-pkg-up/read-pkg-up-tests.ts
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+import ReadPkgUp = require('read-pkg-up');
+
+ReadPkgUp().then(pkg => typeof pkg === 'object');
+ReadPkgUp({cwd: '.', normalize: false}).then(pkg => typeof pkg === 'object');
+typeof ReadPkgUp.sync() === 'object';
+typeof ReadPkgUp.sync({cwd: '.', normalize: false}) === 'object';
diff --git a/types/read-pkg-up/tsconfig.json b/types/read-pkg-up/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "read-pkg-up-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/read-pkg-up/tslint.json b/types/read-pkg-up/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }