Books

The following includes books and other long-form writings about Rust.

Lists of Books

• Little Book of Rust Books↗.
• Awesome Rust Books↗ (fork)↗.
• LearnRust↗: A "list of resources to learn Rust - Roadmap from beginner to advanced level". Includes a book section.
• rust-learning↗: A bunch of links to books, blog posts, articles, videos, etc. for learning Rust.

Essential and Official Books

The books found on rust-lang.org↗ and friends are listed below:

• "The Book": The Rust Programming Language↗.
  • The Rust Programming Language↗: An experimental version of the Rust Book enhanced with interactive quizzes, highlighting, and visualizations.
  • The Rust Programming Language↗, 2nd Edition, by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols 978-1718503106↗: The official Rust Book, in paper format.
• Rust by Example↗: A collection of runnable examples that illustrate various Rust concepts and standard libraries.
• The Rust Cookbook (old)↗.
  • The Rust Cookbook (fork)↗.
• The Rust Standard Library↗: Comprehensive guide to the Rust standard library APIs.
• The Rust Reference↗: The primary reference for the Rust programming language.
• The Rustonomicon↗ (nightly version)↗.

Other Official Reference and Documentation

• The Rust Edition Guide↗. Editions are Rust's way of introducing changes into the language that would not otherwise be backwards compatible.
• Rust Error Codes Index↗.
• The Rust Unstable Book↗.
• The Rust RFC Book↗.
• Rust Forge↗ serves as a repository of supplementary documentation useful for contributors to the Rust programming language repos.

Free eBooks

• Comprehensive Rust↗: Free Rust course developed by the Android team at Google.
• Easy Rust↗ (alternate)↗.
• Effective Rust↗.
• Fast Track to Rust↗.
• A Gentle Introduction to Rust↗.
• Learn Rust by Writing Entirely Too Many Linked Lists↗.
• Rust-101↗.
• Rust by Practice↗.
• Rust Development Classes↗.
• Rust for C Programmers↗. Despite the title, the book doesn't require prior experience with the C language. The name is mainly meant to indicate that the book is not aimed at complete beginners who have never written code or lack any basic understanding of systems programming.
• Rust Project Primer↗.
• Rust Quest↗.

Rust Books, General

• Advanced Hands-on Rust↗: Level up Your Coding Skills, 1st Edition, by Herbert Wolverson (currently in beta). 979-8888650721↗.
• Beginning Rust↗: Get Started with Rust 2021 Edition, by Carlo Milanesi. 978-1484272077↗.
• Creative Projects for Rust Programmers↗: Build exciting projects on domains such as web apps, WebAssembly, games, and parsing, by Carlo Milanesi. 978-1789346220↗.
• Code Like a Pro in Rust↗ by Brenden Matthews. 978-1638354543↗.
• The Complete Rust Programming Reference Guide↗: Design, develop, and deploy effective software systems using the advanced constructs of Rust, by Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta, Claus Matzinger. 978-1838828103↗.
• Effective Rust↗: 35 Specific Ways to Improve Your Rust Code, by David Drysdale. (O'Reilly)↗ 978-1098151409↗ (online version)↗.
• Fullstack Rust↗ by Andy Weiss (Newline↗ or Kindle).
• Hands-on Rust↗: Effective Learning Through 2D Game Development and Play, by Herbert Wolverson. 978-1680508161↗.
• Idiomatic Rust↗: Code like a Rustacean, by Brenden Matthews 9781633437463↗.
• Learn Rust in a Month of Lunches↗ by David MacLeod (Manning)↗ 978-1633438231↗.
• Programming Rust↗: Fast, Safe Systems Development, by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff (O'Reilly)↗. 9781491927281↗.
• Programming Rust↗: Fast, Safe Systems Development, by Jim Blandy, Leonora Tindall. 978-1492052593↗.
• Refactoring to Rust↗ by Lily Mara, Joel Holmes. 9781617299018↗.
• Rust Brain Teasers: Exercise Your Mind, 1st Edition, by Herbert Wolverson. 978-1680509557↗.
• Rust Crash Course↗: Build High-Performance, Efficient and Productive Software with the Power of Next-Generation Programming Skills, by Abhishek Kumar. 978-9355510952↗.
• Rust Essentials↗ 2nd ed. 978-1788390019↗.
• Rust for Rustaceans↗: Idiomatic Programming for Experienced Developers, by Jon Gjengset. 978-1718501850↗.
• Rust from the Ground Up↗. It teaches Rust by implementing a classic Unix CLI utility in each chapter (cat, head, wc...).
• Rust in Action↗: Systems Programming Concepts and Techniques, by Tim McNamara. 978-1617294556↗.
• Rust Programming by Example↗: Enter the world of Rust by building engaging, concurrent, reactive, and robust applications, by Guillaume Gomez, Antoni Boucher (Packt). 978-1788390637↗.
• The Rust Programming Language↗, 2nd Edition, by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols. 978-1718503106↗.
• Rust Under the Hood↗: A deep dive into Rust internals and generated assembly, by Sandeep Ahluwalia, Deepa Ahluwalia. 979-8320364469↗.
• The Secrets of Rust: Tools↗.
• Step Ahead with Rust↗: Systems Programming in Rust, by Jonathan Creekmore, James Miller (Kindle).
• Zero to Production in Rust↗: An Introduction to Backend Development, by Luca Palmieri. 979-8847211437↗: "An opinionated introduction to backend development in Rust". (website and sample)↗ (blog)↗ (code for the book)↗.

Rust Books, by Topic

APIs and Microservices

• Hands-On Microservices with Rust↗: Build, test, and deploy scalable and reactive microservices with Rust 2018, by Denis Kolodin. 978-1789341980↗.
• Rust API Guidelines↗: A set of recommendations on how to design and present APIs for the Rust programming language, authored largely by the Rust library team.
• rust-api.dev↗.

Async

• Async Rust↗: Unleashing the Power of Fearless Concurrency, 1st Edition, by Maxwell Flitton, Caroline Morton. 978-1098149055↗.
• Asynchronous Programming in Rust↗.

Command Line Interfaces

• Command-line Apps in Rust↗.
• Command-Line Rust↗: A Project-Based Primer for Writing Rust CLIs, by Ken Youens-Clark (O'Reilly)↗. 978-1098109431↗.

Compiler and Tools

• The Cargo Book↗. Cargo is the Rust package manager.
• Configuring rustfmt↗.
• Clippy Documentation↗.
• mdBook Documentation↗.
• The rustc Book↗.
• The rustdoc Book↗.
• The Rust Compiler Development Guide↗.

Concurrency and Parallelism

• Rust Atomics and Locks↗: A deep dive into atomics and locks by Mara Bos. 9781098119447↗.
• Rust Concurrency↗: Master the art of building safe, scalable, and effective software, by Brian Troutwine. 978-1788399975↗.

Data Analysis

• Data Analysis with Rust Notebooks↗. 978-1-915907-10-3↗.

Design Patterns

• Rust Design Patterns↗.

Embedded Systems

• The Embedded Rust Book↗.
• The Discovery Book↗: Introduction to microcontrollers and how to use Rust with them.
• The Rust on ESP Book↗ for Espressif devices.
  • Embedded Rust (no_std) on Espressif↗.
  • Embedded Rust on Espressif↗.
• The Embedonomicon↗.

See also the Awesome Embedded Rust↗, a curated list of resources for embedded and low-level development.

Error Handling

• Error Handling in Rust↗.

Foreign Function Interfaces (FFI)

• The bindgen User Guide↗.
• The Rust FFI Omnibus↗.

Functional Programming

• Hands-On Functional Programming in Rust↗: Create modular, reusable, and testable applications, by Andrew Johnson. 978-1788839358↗.

Idioms

• Idiomatic Rust Snippets↗.

Interpreters

• Writing Interpreters in Rust↗. (GitHub)↗.

Machine Learning

• Practical Machine Learning with Rust↗: Creating Intelligent Applications in Rust. 978-1484251201↗.

Macros

• The Little Book of Rust Macros↗.
• Write Powerful Rust Macros↗ by Sam Van Overmeire. 9781633437494↗.

Network Programming

• Network Programming with Rust↗ by Abhishek Chanda. 9781788624893↗.

Performance

• Rust High Performance↗ by Iban Eguia Moraza. 978-1788399487↗.
• The Rust Performance Book↗.

Random Numbers

• The Rust Rand Book↗.

Security

• Black Hat Rust↗: Applied offensive security with the Rust programming language, by Sylvain Kerkour.
• The Copenhagen Book↗: General guideline on implementing auth in web applications. Not Rust-specific.
• High Assurance Rust↗: Developing Secure and Robust Software.

Standard Library

• The Rust Standard Library↗: The official, comprehensive guide to the Rust standard library APIs.
• Rust Standard Library Cookbook↗: Over 75 recipes to leverage the power of Rust. 978-1788629652↗.

Unsafe Code

• The Unsafe Code Guidelines Reference↗.

Web Programming

Rust Web Development with warp, tokio, and reqwest↗ by Bastian Gruber. 9781617299001↗.

Webassembly (WASM)

• Rust and Webassembly↗.This small book describes how to use Rust and WebAssembly together.
• Programming WebAssembly with Rust↗: Unified Development for Web, Mobile, and Embedded Applications, 1st Edition, by Kevin Hoffman. 978-1680506365↗.

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