diff --git a/pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx b/pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx
index 62a3568932def..0aab4fdc8c537 100644
--- a/pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx
+++ b/pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx
@@ -567,10 +567,8 @@ cdef class TextReader:
         # we need to properly close an open derived
         # filehandle here, e.g. and UTFRecoder
         if self.handle is not None:
-            try:
-                self.handle.close()
-            except:
-                pass
+            self.handle.close()
+
         # also preemptively free all allocated memory
         parser_free(self.parser)
         if self.true_set:
diff --git a/pandas/io/common.py b/pandas/io/common.py
index 0bbac8a8b7c1c..2ca2007e2925f 100644
--- a/pandas/io/common.py
+++ b/pandas/io/common.py
@@ -600,6 +600,9 @@ def readline(self) -> bytes:
     def next(self) -> bytes:
         return next(self.reader).encode("utf-8")
 
+    def close(self):
+        self.reader.close()
+
 
 # Keeping these class for now because it provides a necessary convenience
 # for "dropping" the "encoding" argument from our I/O arguments when
diff --git a/pandas/io/json/_json.py b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
index 4af362d8343f2..a10d31e1f4f02 100644
--- a/pandas/io/json/_json.py
+++ b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
@@ -587,10 +587,8 @@ def read_json(
 
     result = json_reader.read()
     if should_close:
-        try:
-            filepath_or_buffer.close()
-        except:  # noqa: flake8
-            pass
+        filepath_or_buffer.close()
+
     return result
 
 
diff --git a/pandas/io/parquet.py b/pandas/io/parquet.py
index 6fc70e9f4a737..334fb592cb0c1 100644
--- a/pandas/io/parquet.py
+++ b/pandas/io/parquet.py
@@ -125,10 +125,7 @@ def read(self, path, columns=None, **kwargs):
             path, columns=columns, **kwargs
         ).to_pandas()
         if should_close:
-            try:
-                path.close()
-            except:  # noqa: flake8
-                pass
+            path.close()
 
         return result