diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 971c0c65a2..2baf20f270 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
 
 # The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
 # a list of builtin themes.
-html_theme = 'pydata_sphinx_theme'
+html_theme = 'sphinx_book_theme'
 
 
 # Enable labeling for figures
@@ -146,13 +146,23 @@
 # further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
 # documentation.
 html_theme_options = {
-    'external_links': [
-        {'url': 'http://www.aiida.net/', 'name': 'AiiDA Home'}
-    ],
+    'home_page_in_toc': False,
+    'repository_url': 'https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core',
+    'repository_branch': 'develop',
+    'use_repository_button': True,
+    'use_issues_button': True,
+    'path_to_docs': 'docs/source',
+    'use_edit_page_button': True,
+    'extra_navbar': '',
     'github_url': 'https://github.com/aiidateam/aiida-core',
     'twitter_url': 'https://twitter.com/aiidateam',
-    'use_edit_page_button': True,
+    'external_links': [
+        {'url': 'https://aiida.net', 'name': 'AiiDA home'},
+    ],
 }
+html_domain_indices = True
+html_title = ''
+
 html_context = {
     'github_user': 'aiidateam',
     'github_repo': 'aiida-core',
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index dc6689a0ab..7fe98cbc53 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ rest = [
 docs = [
     "docutils==0.15.2",
     "pygments~=2.5",
-    "pydata-sphinx-theme~=0.6.3",
+    "sphinx-book-theme",
     "sphinx~=3.2.1",
     "sphinxcontrib-details-directive~=0.1.0",
     "sphinx-panels~=0.5.0",
diff --git a/requirements/requirements-py-3.10.txt b/requirements/requirements-py-3.10.txt
index 3f8594e616..38fd077e8f 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-py-3.10.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-py-3.10.txt
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ py==1.11.0
 py-cpuinfo==8.0.0
 PyCifRW==4.4.3
 pycparser==2.21
-pydata-sphinx-theme==0.6.3
+sphinx-book-theme==0.2.0
 Pygments==2.10.0
 pymatgen==2022.1.9
 Pympler==0.9
diff --git a/requirements/requirements-py-3.8.txt b/requirements/requirements-py-3.8.txt
index c2f9ac7841..b1d75f6114 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-py-3.8.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-py-3.8.txt
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ py==1.11.0
 py-cpuinfo==8.0.0
 PyCifRW==4.4.3
 pycparser==2.21
-pydata-sphinx-theme==0.6.3
+sphinx-book-theme==0.2.0
 Pygments==2.10.0
 pymatgen==2022.0.16
 Pympler==0.9
diff --git a/requirements/requirements-py-3.9.txt b/requirements/requirements-py-3.9.txt
index a4560d081b..9b572f4670 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-py-3.9.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-py-3.9.txt
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ py==1.11.0
 py-cpuinfo==8.0.0
 PyCifRW==4.4.3
 pycparser==2.21
-pydata-sphinx-theme==0.6.3
+sphinx-book-theme==0.2.0
 Pygments==2.10.0
 pymatgen==2022.0.16
 Pympler==0.9