Knowing is half the battle. — G. I. Joe

This repository contains a list of curated books that are suitable for full-stack development. This is a mixture of both free and paid books. The titles are picked based on their high ratings and positive reviews from sites like Goodreads and Amazon.

Algorithms and Data Structures

• A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms by Jay Wengrow
• Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
• Grokking Algorithms by Aditya Bhargava
• Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas Cormen
• Think Complexity by Allen B. Downey (Free)

Design Patterns & Code Quality

• Adaptive Code by Gary McLean Hall
• Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
• Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell
• Code Quality by Diomidis Spinellis
• Design Patterns by Erich Gamma
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
• Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
• Refactoring by Martin Fowler
• Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky

Full Stack Development

CI/CD

• Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble
• Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins by Rafał Leszko
• Continuous Integration by Paul Duvall
• Grokking Continuous Delivery by Christie Wilson
• Pipeline as Code by Mohamed Labouardy

Databases

• Database Design by Adrienne Watt (Free)
• Database Design for Mere Mortals by Michael J. Hernandez
• Essential SQLAlchemy by Jason Myers
• MongoDB: The Definitive Guide by Kristina Chodrow
• PostgreSQL Official Documentation
• Redis by Jay A. Kreibich
• SQL Antipatterns by Bill Karwin
• SQL Cookbook by Anthony Molinaro
• The Little Book of Redis by Karl Seguin

DevOps

• Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling
• Ansible: Up and Running by Lorin Hochstein
• Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes by John Arundel
• Cloud Native by Boris Scholl
• Docker Deep Dive by Nigel Poulton
• Docker for Sysadmins by Nigel Poulton
• Kubernetes Best Practices by Brendan Burns
• Kubernetes Patterns by Bilgin Ibryam
• Kubernetes: Up and Running by Kelsey Hightower
• Practical ELK Stack by Gurpreet S. Sachdeva
• Prometheus: Up and Running by Brian Brazil
• Terraform: Up and Running by Yevgeniy Brikman
• The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim
• The Kubernetes Book by Nigel Poulton

Python

• A Guide to Python's Magic Methods by Rafe Kettler (Free)
• Architecture Patterns with Python by Harry Percival (Free)
• Beyond the Basic Stuffs with Python by Al Sweigart
• Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design by Steven Lott (Free)
• CPython Internals by Anthony Shaw
• Clean Architectures with Python by Leonardo Giordani
• Cython by Kurt Smith
• Dive Into Python 3 by Mark Pilgrim (Free)
• Effective Python by Brett Slatkin
• Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho
• High Performance Python by Micha Gorelick
• Inside the Python Virtual Machine by Obi Ike Nwosu
• Intermediate Python by Muhammad Yasoob Ullah Khalid
• Practical Python Design Patterns by Wessel Badenhorst
• Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips
• Python 3 Official Documentation (Online)
• Python 3 Patterns, Recipes, and Idioms by Bruce Eckel (Free)
• Python Cookbook by David Beazly
• Python Design Patterns by Brandon Rhodes
• Python Notes for Professional by goalkicker.com (Free)
• Python Packages by Tomas Beuzen
• Python Testing with Pytest by Brian Okken
• Python for Data Analysis by Wes McKinney
• Python re(gex)? by Sandeep Agarwal (Free)
• Robust Python by Patrick Viafore
• Test-Driven Development with Python by Harry Percival
• Testing Python by David Sale
• The Hacker's Guide to Python by Julien Danjou
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python! by Kenneth Reitz (Free)
• The Little Book of Python Anti-Patterns by Kayce Basques
• Using Asyncio in Python by Caleb Hattingh

Rust

• Command-Line Rust by Ken Youens
• Hands-on Concurrency with Rust by Brian Troutwine
• Hands-on Rust by Herbert Wolverson
• Programming Rust by Jim Blandy
• Refactoring to Rust by Lily Mara
• Rust Cookbook by Vigneshwer Dhinakaran
• Rust Design Patterns by E. Dunham
• Rust Servers, Services, and Apps by Prabhu Eshwarla
• Rust Web Development by Bastian Gruber
• Rust for Rustaceans by Jon Gjengset
• The Art of WebAssembly by Rick Battagline
• The Rust Programming Language by Steve Klabnik (Free)
• Zero to Production in Rust by Luca Palmieri

Web Architecture

• AWS Lambda by Matthew Fuller
• AWS Well-Architected Framework by AWS (Free)
• Building Microservices by Sam Newman
• Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Distributed Systems by Maarten van Steen
• Distributed Tracing in Practice by Austin Parker
• Effective Kafka by Emil Koutanov
• Kafka Streams in Action by Bill Bejeck
• Kafka: The Definitive Guide by Gwen Shapira
• Microservice APIs: With Examples in Python by Jose Haro Peralta
• Microservice Patterns by Chris Richardson
• RabbitMQ in Depth Gavin Roy
• ZeroMQ: Messaging for Many Applications by Pieter Hintjens

Web Frameworks (Python)

• Django Official Documentated Book (Online)
• Explore Flask by Robert Picard Revision
• Flask Web Development by Miguel Grinberg
• Full Stack Python by Matt Makai (Free)
• Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets and Backbone by Julia Elman
• Official Flask Documentation (Online)
• Production-Ready GraphQL by Marc-Andre Giroux
• REST APIs with Django by William Vincent
• The Road to GraphQL by Robin Wieruch
• Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices by Daniel Feldroy

Web Front-End

• CSS in Depth by Keith Grant
• Effective TypeScript by Dan Vanderkam
• Learning React by Alex Banks
• Programming TypeScript by Boris Cherny
• You Don't know JS: Async & Performance by Kyle Simpson
• React Design Patterns and Best Practices by Michele Bertoli
• React Hooks in Action by Mark Tielens Thomas

Web Services

• API Security in Action by Neil Madden
• HTTP/2 in Action by Barry Pollard
• HTTP: The Definitive Guide by David Gourley
• Nginx Cookbook by Derek DeJonghe
• Nginx Essentials by Valery Kholodkov
• WebRTC APIs by Alan B. Johnston
• Webhooks: Events for RESTful APIs by Matthias Biehl

Linux

• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper (Free)
• Bash Reference Manual by Chet Ramey (Free)
• GNU sed by Sandeep Agarwal (Free)
• How Linux Works by Brian Ward
• Modern Vim by Drew Neil
• Practical Vim by Drew Neil
• Pro Git by Scott Chacon
• Shell Scripting by Steve Parker (Free)
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
• The GNU Awk User's Guide (Free)
• tmux 2 by Brian Hogan

Software Engineering

• A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
• Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin
• BDD in Action by John Ferguson
• Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans
• Essential Scrum by Kenneth S. Rubin
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture by Mark Richards
• Implementing Domain Driven Design by Vaughn Vernon
• Introduction to System Design by Shivam Singh
• Patterns, Principles and Practices of Domain Driven Design by Scott Millett
• System Design Interview by Alex Xu
• The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin
• The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau
• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks
• The Nature of Software Development by Ron Jeffries
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt
• Unit Testing Principles by Vladimir Khorikov
• Web Scalability for Startup Engineers by Ejsmont A.

Feel free to contribute. ;)