BUG: Integer Overflow in read_json with big number in string

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.0.0.rst

@@ -803,6 +803,7 @@ I/O
 - Bug in :func:`read_json` where default encoding was not set to ``utf-8`` (:issue:`29565`)
 - Bug in :class:`PythonParser` where str and bytes were being mixed when dealing with the decimal field (:issue:`29650`)
 - :meth:`read_gbq` now accepts ``progress_bar_type`` to display progress bar while the data downloads. (:issue:`29857`)
+- Bug in :meth: `read_json` where integer overflow was occuring when json contains big number strings. (:issue:`30320`)
 
 Plotting
 ^^^^^^^^

pandas/io/json/_json.py

@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ def _try_convert_data(self, name, data, use_dtypes=True, convert_dates=True):
                 if (new_data == data).all():
                     data = new_data
                     result = True
-            except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            except (TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError):
                 pass
 
         # coerce ints to 64

pandas/tests/io/json/test_pandas.py

@@ -1601,3 +1601,16 @@ def test_json_indent_all_orients(self, orient, expected):
     def test_json_negative_indent_raises(self):
         with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="must be a nonnegative integer"):
             pd.DataFrame().to_json(indent=-1)
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "json,expected",
+        [
+            (
+                json.dumps([{"col": "31900441201190696999"}, {"col": "3190044"}]),
+                DataFrame({"col": [31900441201190696999.0, 3190044.0]}),
+            ),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_frame_int_overflow(self, json, expected):
+        result = read_json(json)
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)