diff --git a/src/utils/tests.jl b/src/utils/tests.jl
index bc68e9f5be13..bee612efeb2c 100644
--- a/src/utils/tests.jl
+++ b/src/utils/tests.jl
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ function _gather_tests(path::AbstractString; ignore=[])
                      # this can only run on the main process and not on distributed workers
                      # so it is included directly in runtests
                      r"Serialization/IPC(\.jl)?$",
+                     # this is run in a separate CI job
+                     r"book/test.jl$",
                    ]
   for i in ignore
     if i isa Regex