diff --git a/fs.js b/fs.js
index 25ca524..6f47770 100644
--- a/fs.js
+++ b/fs.js
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ module.exports = {
   listTree: function listTree (directoryPath, filter) {
     return walk(directoryPath, filter, [])
   },
+
+  /**
+   * Custom implementation of [q-io/fs#list](http://documentup.com/kriskowal/q-io#listpath)
+   * to avoid dependency on q-io
+   * @param {string} directoryPath the base path
+   * @returns {Promise<string[]>} a promise for the collector, that is fulfilled with a list of directory entries
+   */
+  list: function list (directoryPath) {
+    return Q.ninvoke(fs, 'readdir', directoryPath)
+  },
+
   /**
    * Replacement for [q-io/fs#makeTree](http://documentup.com/kriskowal/q-io#maketreepath-mode)
    * @param {string} aPath the directory to be created
@@ -35,9 +46,11 @@ module.exports = {
   makeTree: function makeTree (aPath, mode) {
     return Q.nfcall(require('mkdirp'), aPath, {mode: mode})
   },
+
   removeTree: function removeTree (aPath) {
     return Q.nfcall(require('rimraf'), aPath)
   },
+
   /**
    * Replacement for [q-io/fs#read](http://documentup.com/kriskowal/q-io#readpath-options)
    * @param aPath
diff --git a/test/fixtures/dir/file.txt b/test/fixtures/dir/file.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/test/fixtures/dir/subdir/donotdelete.txt b/test/fixtures/dir/subdir/donotdelete.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/test/fs-spec.js b/test/fs-spec.js
index ee8f136..b072321 100644
--- a/test/fs-spec.js
+++ b/test/fs-spec.js
@@ -23,14 +23,22 @@ chai.use(chaiAsPromised)
 chai.should()
 
 describe('m-io/fs', function () {
-  describe('the list-tree function', function () {
-    var sort = function (x) {
-      return x.sort()
-    }
+  var sort = function (x) {
+    return x.sort()
+  }
+
+  describe('the list function', function () {
+    it('should list all entries in a directory', function () {
+      return mfs.list('test/fixtures/dir').then(sort).should.eventually.deep.equal([
+        'file.txt',
+        'subdir'
+      ])
+    })
+  })
 
+  describe('the list-tree function', function () {
     it('should return a file listing as array', function () {
-      return mfs.listTree('test/fixtures').then(sort).should.eventually.deep.equal([
-        'test/fixtures',
+      return mfs.listTree('test/fixtures/tree').then(sort).should.eventually.deep.equal([
         'test/fixtures/tree',
         'test/fixtures/tree/a',
         'test/fixtures/tree/a/b',
@@ -44,7 +52,7 @@ describe('m-io/fs', function () {
       var filter = function (name, stat) {
         return stat.isFile()
       }
-      return mfs.listTree('test/fixtures', filter).then(sort).should.eventually.deep.equal([
+      return mfs.listTree('test/fixtures/tree', filter).then(sort).should.eventually.deep.equal([
         'test/fixtures/tree/a/b/c.txt',
         'test/fixtures/tree/a/bb/cc.txt'
       ])
@@ -54,8 +62,7 @@ describe('m-io/fs', function () {
       var filter = function (name, stat) {
         return name !== 'test/fixtures/tree/a/bb'
       }
-      return mfs.listTree('test/fixtures', filter).then(sort).should.eventually.deep.equal([
-        'test/fixtures',
+      return mfs.listTree('test/fixtures/tree', filter).then(sort).should.eventually.deep.equal([
         'test/fixtures/tree',
         'test/fixtures/tree/a',
         'test/fixtures/tree/a/b',
@@ -68,8 +75,7 @@ describe('m-io/fs', function () {
       var filter = function (name, stat) {
         return name === 'test/fixtures/tree/a/bb' ? null : true
       }
-      return mfs.listTree('test/fixtures', filter).then(sort).should.eventually.deep.equal([
-        'test/fixtures',
+      return mfs.listTree('test/fixtures/tree', filter).then(sort).should.eventually.deep.equal([
         'test/fixtures/tree',
         'test/fixtures/tree/a',
         'test/fixtures/tree/a/b',