diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libmongo-client/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmongo-client/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4cbc51ea6786
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libmongo-client/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkgconfig, glib }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "libmongo-client-0.1.8";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "algernon";
+    repo = "libmongo-client";
+    rev = name;
+    sha256 = "1cjx06i3gd9zkyvwm2ysjrf0hkhr7bjg3c27s7n0y31j10igfjp0";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ autoreconfHook pkgconfig ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ glib ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    # Fix when uses glib in public headers
+    sed -i 's/Requires.private/Requires/g' src/libmongo-client.pc.in
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = http://algernon.github.io/libmongo-client/;
+    description = "An alternative C driver for MongoDB";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ wkennington ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a3d57f163757..97adcfbbf61b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1777,6 +1777,8 @@ let
 
   libmbim = callPackage ../development/libraries/libmbim { };
 
+  libmongo-client = callPackage ../development/libraries/libmongo-client { };
+
   libtorrent = callPackage ../tools/networking/p2p/libtorrent { };
 
   libtorrent-git = callPackage ../tools/networking/p2p/libtorrent/git.nix { };