diff --git a/client_test.go b/client_test.go
index 62153b234..79e3060eb 100644
--- a/client_test.go
+++ b/client_test.go
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ func TestClient(t *testing.T) {
 			scenario: "retrieve committed offsets for a consumer group and topic",
 			function: testConsumerGroupFetchOffsets,
 		},
+		{
+			scenario: "retrieve committed offsets for a consumer group and topic with batch processing",
+			function: testConsumerGroupFetchMessageBatch,
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, test := range tests {
@@ -191,6 +195,77 @@ func testConsumerGroupFetchOffsets(t *testing.T, ctx context.Context, client *Cl
 	}
 }
 
+func testConsumerGroupFetchMessageBatch(t *testing.T, ctx context.Context, client *Client) {
+	const totalMessages = 144
+	const partitions = 12
+	const msgPerPartition = totalMessages / partitions
+
+	topic := makeTopic()
+	if err := clientCreateTopic(client, topic, partitions); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	groupId := makeGroupID()
+	brokers := []string{"localhost:9092"}
+
+	writer := &Writer{
+		Addr:      TCP(brokers...),
+		Topic:     topic,
+		Balancer:  &RoundRobin{},
+		BatchSize: 1,
+		Transport: client.Transport,
+	}
+	if err := writer.WriteMessages(ctx, makeTestSequence(totalMessages)...); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("bad write messages: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := writer.Close(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("bad write err: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	batchSize := 100
+	r := NewReader(ReaderConfig{
+		Brokers:       brokers,
+		Topic:         topic,
+		GroupID:       groupId,
+		MinBytes:      1,
+		MaxBytes:      10e6,
+		MaxWait:       100 * time.Millisecond,
+		QueueCapacity: batchSize,
+	})
+	defer r.Close()
+
+	var expected int
+	for {
+		m, err := r.FetchMessageBatch(ctx, batchSize, time.Second)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("error fetching message: %s", err)
+		}
+		if err := r.CommitMessages(context.Background(), m...); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		expected += len(m)
+		if expected == totalMessages {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+
+	offsets, err := client.ConsumerOffsets(ctx, TopicAndGroup{GroupId: groupId, Topic: topic})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if len(offsets) != partitions {
+		t.Fatalf("expected %d partitions but only received offsets for %d", partitions, len(offsets))
+	}
+
+	for i := 0; i < partitions; i++ {
+		committedOffset := offsets[i]
+		if committedOffset != msgPerPartition {
+			t.Errorf("expected partition %d with committed offset of %d but received %d", i, msgPerPartition, committedOffset)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func TestClientProduceAndConsume(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
 	defer cancel()
diff --git a/reader.go b/reader.go
index 04d90f355..ed6cdbfdd 100644
--- a/reader.go
+++ b/reader.go
@@ -912,6 +912,65 @@ func (r *Reader) CommitMessages(ctx context.Context, msgs ...Message) error {
 	}
 }
 
+// FetchMessageBatch fetches a batch of messages from the reader. It is similar to
+// FetchMessage, except it blocks until no. of messages read reaches batchSize.
+func (r *Reader) FetchMessageBatch(ctx context.Context, batchSize int, deadline time.Duration) ([]Message, error) {
+	r.activateReadLag()
+	msgBatch := make([]Message, 0, batchSize)
+
+	r.mutex.Lock()
+	if !r.closed && r.version == 0 {
+		r.start(r.getTopicPartitionOffset())
+	}
+	version := r.version
+	r.mutex.Unlock()
+
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return []Message{}, ctx.Err()
+		case <-time.After(deadline):
+			return msgBatch, nil
+		case m, ok := <-r.msgs:
+			if !ok {
+				return []Message{}, io.EOF
+			}
+
+			if m.version < version {
+				continue
+			}
+
+			r.mutex.Lock()
+
+			switch {
+			case m.error != nil:
+			case version == r.version:
+				r.offset = m.message.Offset + 1
+				r.lag = m.watermark - r.offset
+			}
+
+			r.mutex.Unlock()
+
+			if errors.Is(m.error, io.EOF) {
+				// io.EOF is used as a marker to indicate that the stream
+				// has been closed, in case it was received from the inner
+				// reader we don't want to confuse the program and replace
+				// the error with io.ErrUnexpectedEOF.
+				m.error = io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
+			}
+			if m.error != nil {
+				return nil, m.error
+			}
+
+			msgBatch = append(msgBatch, m.message)
+
+			if len(msgBatch) == batchSize {
+				return msgBatch, nil
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 // ReadLag returns the current lag of the reader by fetching the last offset of
 // the topic and partition and computing the difference between that value and
 // the offset of the last message returned by ReadMessage.