diff --git a/Lib/_pyio.py b/Lib/_pyio.py
index 654a69c..334c2b7 100644
--- a/Lib/_pyio.py
+++ b/Lib/_pyio.py
@@ -1696,6 +1696,7 @@
         return cookie
 
     def read(self, n=None):
+        self._checkReadable()
         if n is None:
             n = -1
         decoder = self._decoder or self._get_decoder()
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_io.py b/Lib/test/test_io.py
index d5be405..53017f3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_io.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_io.py
@@ -1754,6 +1754,13 @@
             self.assertEquals(f.read(), data * 2)
             self.assertEquals(buf.getvalue(), (data * 2).encode(encoding))
 
+    def test_unreadable(self):
+        class UnReadable(self.BytesIO):
+            def readable(self):
+                return False
+        txt = self.TextIOWrapper(UnReadable())
+        self.assertRaises(IOError, txt.read)
+
     def test_read_one_by_one(self):
         txt = self.TextIOWrapper(self.BytesIO(b"AA\r\nBB"))
         reads = ""