diff --git a/singer_sdk/streams/rest.py b/singer_sdk/streams/rest.py
index 4eef8e268..7f1f6fb89 100644
--- a/singer_sdk/streams/rest.py
+++ b/singer_sdk/streams/rest.py
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ def request_decorator(self, func: t.Callable) -> t.Callable:
             (
                 ConnectionResetError,
                 RetriableAPIError,
-                requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout,
+                requests.exceptions.Timeout,
                 requests.exceptions.ConnectionError,
                 requests.exceptions.ChunkedEncodingError,
                 requests.exceptions.ContentDecodingError,