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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39 curated books to help you learn Rust.
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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 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.
Zero To Production In Rust
by Luca Palmieri
A full-stack course on building production-ready Rust web applications.