diff --git a/tableauserverclient/models/workbook_item.py b/tableauserverclient/models/workbook_item.py
index 14ca8f33b..9c7e2022e 100644
--- a/tableauserverclient/models/workbook_item.py
+++ b/tableauserverclient/models/workbook_item.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 from .permissions_item import PermissionsRule
 from ..datetime_helpers import parse_datetime
 import copy
+import uuid
 
 
 class WorkbookItem(object):
@@ -275,6 +276,10 @@ def from_response(cls, resp, ns):
                 data_acceleration_config,
             ) = cls._parse_element(workbook_xml, ns)
 
+            # workaround for Personal Space workbooks which won't have a project
+            if not project_id:
+                project_id = uuid.uuid4()
+
             workbook_item = cls(project_id)
             workbook_item._set_values(
                 id,
diff --git a/test/assets/workbook_get_by_id_personal.xml b/test/assets/workbook_get_by_id_personal.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..90cc65e73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/assets/workbook_get_by_id_personal.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<tsResponse xmlns="http://tableau.com/api" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tableau.com/api http://tableau.com/api/ts-api-2.3.xsd">
+    <workbook id="3cc6cd06-89ce-4fdc-b935-5294135d6d43" name="SafariSample" description="description for SafariSample" contentUrl="SafariSample" webpageUrl="http://tableauserver/#/workbooks/2/views" showTabs="false" size="26" createdAt="2016-07-26T20:34:56Z" updatedAt="2016-07-26T20:35:05Z">
+        <owner id="5de011f8-5aa9-4d5b-b991-f462c8dd6bb7" />
+        <tags>
+            <tag label="Safari" />
+            <tag label="Sample" />
+        </tags>
+        <views>
+            <view id="d79634e1-6063-4ec9-95ff-50acbf609ff5" name="ENDANGERED SAFARI" contentUrl="SafariSample/sheets/ENDANGEREDSAFARI" />
+        </views>
+    </workbook>
+</tsResponse>
diff --git a/test/test_workbook.py b/test/test_workbook.py
index fc1344b9e..d3a3b59b4 100644
--- a/test/test_workbook.py
+++ b/test/test_workbook.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 ADD_TAGS_XML = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, 'workbook_add_tags.xml')
 GET_BY_ID_XML = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, 'workbook_get_by_id.xml')
+GET_BY_ID_XML_PERSONAL = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, 'workbook_get_by_id_personal.xml')
 GET_EMPTY_XML = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, 'workbook_get_empty.xml')
 GET_INVALID_DATE_XML = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, 'workbook_get_invalid_date.xml')
 GET_XML = os.path.join(TEST_ASSET_DIR, 'workbook_get.xml')
@@ -128,6 +129,31 @@ def test_get_by_id(self):
         self.assertEqual('ENDANGERED SAFARI', single_workbook.views[0].name)
         self.assertEqual('SafariSample/sheets/ENDANGEREDSAFARI', single_workbook.views[0].content_url)
 
+    def test_get_by_id_personal(self):
+        # workbooks in personal space don't have project_id or project_name
+        with open(GET_BY_ID_XML_PERSONAL, 'rb') as f:
+            response_xml = f.read().decode('utf-8')
+        with requests_mock.mock() as m:
+            m.get(self.baseurl + '/3cc6cd06-89ce-4fdc-b935-5294135d6d43', text=response_xml)
+            single_workbook = self.server.workbooks.get_by_id('3cc6cd06-89ce-4fdc-b935-5294135d6d43')
+
+        self.assertEqual('3cc6cd06-89ce-4fdc-b935-5294135d6d43', single_workbook.id)
+        self.assertEqual('SafariSample', single_workbook.name)
+        self.assertEqual('SafariSample', single_workbook.content_url)
+        self.assertEqual('http://tableauserver/#/workbooks/2/views', single_workbook.webpage_url)
+        self.assertEqual(False, single_workbook.show_tabs)
+        self.assertEqual(26, single_workbook.size)
+        self.assertEqual('2016-07-26T20:34:56Z', format_datetime(single_workbook.created_at))
+        self.assertEqual('description for SafariSample', single_workbook.description)
+        self.assertEqual('2016-07-26T20:35:05Z', format_datetime(single_workbook.updated_at))
+        self.assertTrue(single_workbook.project_id)
+        self.assertIsNone(single_workbook.project_name)
+        self.assertEqual('5de011f8-5aa9-4d5b-b991-f462c8dd6bb7', single_workbook.owner_id)
+        self.assertEqual(set(['Safari', 'Sample']), single_workbook.tags)
+        self.assertEqual('d79634e1-6063-4ec9-95ff-50acbf609ff5', single_workbook.views[0].id)
+        self.assertEqual('ENDANGERED SAFARI', single_workbook.views[0].name)
+        self.assertEqual('SafariSample/sheets/ENDANGEREDSAFARI', single_workbook.views[0].content_url)
+
     def test_get_by_id_missing_id(self):
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, self.server.workbooks.get_by_id, '')