diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst
index 6f2b9b4f946c7..840571c21da50 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst
@@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ I/O
 - Bug in :meth:`read_sas` was raising an ``AttributeError`` when reading files from Google Cloud Storage (issue:`33069`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.to_sql` where an ``AttributeError`` was raised when saving an out of bounds date (:issue:`26761`)
 - Bug in :meth:`read_excel` did not correctly handle multiple embedded spaces in OpenDocument text cells. (:issue:`32207`)
+- Bug in :meth:`read_json` was raising ``TypeError`` when reading a list of booleans into a Series. (:issue:`31464`)
 
 Plotting
 ^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/pandas/io/json/_json.py b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
index 886387a7a9fe6..20724a498b397 100644
--- a/pandas/io/json/_json.py
+++ b/pandas/io/json/_json.py
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ def _try_convert_to_date(self, data):
         for date_unit in date_units:
             try:
                 new_data = to_datetime(new_data, errors="raise", unit=date_unit)
-            except (ValueError, OverflowError):
+            except (ValueError, OverflowError, TypeError):
                 continue
             return new_data, True
         return data, False
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/json/test_pandas.py b/pandas/tests/io/json/test_pandas.py
index b74abc965f7fa..0576d8e91d531 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/json/test_pandas.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/json/test_pandas.py
@@ -1659,3 +1659,9 @@ def test_json_pandas_nulls(self, nulls_fixture):
         # GH 31615
         result = pd.DataFrame([[nulls_fixture]]).to_json()
         assert result == '{"0":{"0":null}}'
+
+    def test_readjson_bool_series(self):
+        # GH31464
+        result = read_json("[true, true, false]", typ="series")
+        expected = pd.Series([True, True, False])
+        tm.assert_series_equal(result, expected)