The Rust Programming Handbook
by Francesco Ciulla
Francesco Ciulla's end-to-end guide — ownership, concurrency, web dev with Axum, systems programming, and Docker deployment in 768 pages.
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Rust in Action
by Tim McNamara
Project-based intro to systems programming — files, memory, threads, and networking through practical examples.
Hands-On Rust
by Herbert Wolverson
Learn Rust by building a 2D game engine — a fun, project-driven path through ownership, ECS, and game loops.
Black Hat Rust
by Sylvain Kerkour
Offensive security with Rust — scanners, exploits, and security tooling for pentesters and red teamers.
Rust Atomics and Locks
by Mara Bos
The definitive guide to atomics, memory ordering, and lock-free concurrency — by the tokio-uring maintainer.
Code Like a Pro in Rust
by Brenden Matthews
Bridge from another language to idiomatic Rust — modules, testing, error handling, and real-world patterns.
Refactoring to Rust
by Tim McNamara
Incrementally migrate performance-critical Python code to Rust — practical FFI and polyglot architecture.
Rust Web Development
by Bastian Gruber
Build full-stack web apps with Rust — Actix-web, Diesel, WebSockets, and deployment to production.
Rust Brain Teasers
by Herbert Wolverson
Tricky Rust puzzles that sharpen your understanding of ownership, lifetimes, and the type system.
The Rust Programming Language (Print Edition)
by Steve Klabnik & Carol Nichols
The official Rust book in print from No Starch Press — same content as doc.rust-lang.org/book, beautifully typeset.
Creative Projects for Rust Programmers
by Carlo Milanesi
Build a ray tracer, a neural network, a text editor, and more — advanced projects for experienced developers.
Rust Servers, Services, and Apps
by Cem Karaca
Design and deploy production Rust services — authentication, databases, WebSockets, and cloud deployment.
Command-Line Rust (O'Reilly)
by Ken Youens-Clark
Paid edition of the CLI Rust book — build grep, find, and more while mastering idiomatic Rust tooling.
Rust FFI Guide
by Michael Bryan
Working with C and other languages from Rust — bindings, ABI, and safety rules.
Rust API Guidelines
by Rust Project
Official conventions for designing clear, idiomatic public APIs in Rust crates.
OSDev Rust Wiki
Community wiki for writing operating systems in Rust — bootloaders, paging, drivers.
Rust Cookbook
Community-maintained recipes for common Rust programming tasks and patterns.
Rust Standard Library Docs
by Rust Project
Official API documentation for the Rust standard library — essential daily reference.
Discovery: Microcontroller Rust
by Rust Embedded WG
Hands-on embedded Rust book — blink LEDs, set up a probe, write no_std code.
The Rust Performance Book
by Nicholas Nethercote
Guide to profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing Rust code for production.
Are We GUI Yet?
Survey of Rust GUI frameworks — egui, iced, slint, and more with examples.
Rust Design Patterns
by Rust Community
Community catalog of idiomatic Rust patterns — builder, newtype, RAII, and more.
Are We Web Yet?
Overview of the Rust web development ecosystem — frameworks, ORMs, and deployment.
Too Many Lists
by Alex Ozdemir
Learn Rust by implementing linked lists — ownership and unsafe explained step by step.
The Cargo Book
by Rust Project
Official guide to Rust's package manager — dependencies, workspaces, and publishing.
The Unofficial Guide to Rust
by Rust Community
Community wiki covering patterns, crates, and ecosystem gotchas.
Rust and WebAssembly
by Rust and WASM Working Group
Official book on compiling Rust to WASM and integrating with JavaScript.
The Embedded Rust Book
by Rust Embedded Working Group
Official guide to bare-metal and embedded systems programming in Rust.
Command-Line Rust
by Ken Youens-Clark
Build real CLI tools while learning Rust — grep, cat, find, and more.
Rust Patterns & Engineering How-Tos
by microsoft
A practical guide to intermediate-and-above Rust patterns that arise in real codebases.
Rust for Rustaceans
by Jon Gjengset
For developers who know the basics and want to write idiomatic, production Rust.
Programming Rust (2nd Edition)
by Jim Blandy & Jason Orendorff
O'Reilly's deep dive into Rust — systems programming, concurrency, and the type system.
Easy Rust
by David McLeod
Rust explained in simple English with plenty of examples for beginners.
Asynchronous Programming in Rust
by Rust Async Working Group
Official async book covering futures, executors, and async/await patterns.
The Rustonomicon
by Rust Project
The dark arts of unsafe Rust — memory layout, FFI, and advanced internals.
rCore Tutorial Book
by Tsinghua University
Learn to write an OS kernel in Rust — a popular university course material.
Zero To Production In Rust
by Luca Palmieri
A full-stack course on building production-ready Rust web applications.
Rust by Example
by Rust Project
Learn Rust through annotated examples covering core concepts and the standard library.
The Rust Programming Language
by Rust Project
The official book — the best starting point for learning Rust from scratch.