diff --git a/pandas-stubs/_typing.pyi b/pandas-stubs/_typing.pyi
index 0f1e5bf28..fd71f408f 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/_typing.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/_typing.pyi
@@ -780,4 +780,7 @@ TimeGrouperOrigin: TypeAlias = (
     Timestamp | Literal["epoch", "start", "start_day", "end", "end_day"]
 )
 
+ExcelReadEngine: TypeAlias = Literal["xlrd", "openpyxl", "odf", "pyxlsb", "calamine"]
+ExcelWriteEngine: TypeAlias = Literal["openpyxl", "odf", "xlsxwriter"]
+
 __all__ = ["npt", "type_t"]
diff --git a/pandas-stubs/io/excel/_base.pyi b/pandas-stubs/io/excel/_base.pyi
index 8cfade314..a3368d2e3 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/io/excel/_base.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/io/excel/_base.pyi
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ from pandas._libs.lib import NoDefault
 from pandas._typing import (
     Dtype,
     DtypeBackend,
+    ExcelReadEngine,
+    ExcelWriteEngine,
     FilePath,
     IntStrT,
     ListLikeHashable,
@@ -50,7 +52,7 @@ def read_excel(
     index_col: int | Sequence[int] | None = ...,
     usecols: str | UsecolsArgType = ...,
     dtype: str | Dtype | Mapping[str, str | Dtype] | None = ...,
-    engine: Literal["xlrd", "openpyxl", "odf", "pyxlsb"] | None = ...,
+    engine: ExcelReadEngine | None = ...,
     converters: Mapping[int | str, Callable[[object], object]] | None = ...,
     true_values: Iterable[Hashable] | None = ...,
     false_values: Iterable[Hashable] | None = ...,
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@ def read_excel(
     index_col: int | Sequence[int] | None = ...,
     usecols: str | UsecolsArgType = ...,
     dtype: str | Dtype | Mapping[str, str | Dtype] | None = ...,
-    engine: Literal["xlrd", "openpyxl", "odf", "pyxlsb"] | None = ...,
+    engine: ExcelReadEngine | None = ...,
     converters: Mapping[int | str, Callable[[object], object]] | None = ...,
     true_values: Iterable[Hashable] | None = ...,
     false_values: Iterable[Hashable] | None = ...,
@@ -135,7 +137,7 @@ def read_excel(  # type: ignore[misc]
     index_col: int | Sequence[int] | None = ...,
     usecols: str | UsecolsArgType = ...,
     dtype: str | Dtype | Mapping[str, str | Dtype] | None = ...,
-    engine: Literal["xlrd", "openpyxl", "odf", "pyxlsb"] | None = ...,
+    engine: ExcelReadEngine | None = ...,
     converters: Mapping[int | str, Callable[[object], object]] | None = ...,
     true_values: Iterable[Hashable] | None = ...,
     false_values: Iterable[Hashable] | None = ...,
@@ -177,7 +179,7 @@ def read_excel(
     index_col: int | Sequence[int] | None = ...,
     usecols: str | UsecolsArgType = ...,
     dtype: str | Dtype | Mapping[str, str | Dtype] | None = ...,
-    engine: Literal["xlrd", "openpyxl", "odf", "pyxlsb"] | None = ...,
+    engine: ExcelReadEngine | None = ...,
     converters: Mapping[int | str, Callable[[object], object]] | None = ...,
     true_values: Iterable[Hashable] | None = ...,
     false_values: Iterable[Hashable] | None = ...,
@@ -206,7 +208,7 @@ class ExcelWriter:
     def __init__(
         self,
         path: FilePath | WriteExcelBuffer | ExcelWriter,
-        engine: Literal["auto", "openpyxl", "odf", "xlsxwriter"] | None = ...,
+        engine: ExcelWriteEngine | Literal["auto"] | None = ...,
         date_format: str | None = ...,
         datetime_format: str | None = ...,
         mode: Literal["w", "a"] = ...,
@@ -217,7 +219,7 @@ class ExcelWriter:
     @property
     def supported_extensions(self) -> tuple[str, ...]: ...
     @property
-    def engine(self) -> Literal["openpyxl", "odf", "xlsxwriter"]: ...
+    def engine(self) -> ExcelWriteEngine: ...
     @property
     def sheets(self) -> dict[str, Any]: ...
     @property
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 06368bc77..f21594481 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ SQLAlchemy = ">=2.0.12"
 types-python-dateutil = ">=2.8.19"
 beautifulsoup4 = ">=4.12.2"
 html5lib = ">=1.1"
+python-calamine = "0.2.0"
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
diff --git a/tests/test_io.py b/tests/test_io.py
index 75d0331be..6bc53c255 100644
--- a/tests/test_io.py
+++ b/tests/test_io.py
@@ -961,6 +961,16 @@ def test_read_excel() -> None:
             ),
             pd.DataFrame,
         )
+        check(
+            assert_type(
+                pd.read_excel(
+                    path,
+                    engine="calamine",
+                ),
+                pd.DataFrame,
+            ),
+            pd.DataFrame,
+        )
         if TYPE_CHECKING_INVALID_USAGE:
             pd.read_excel(path, names="abcd")  # type: ignore[call-overload] # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]