REST API books

Collection of useful books related to REST API architecture

• API Architecture - The Big Picture for Building APIs Matthias Biehl API University Series - 2015
• API Design on the Scale of Decades Nordic APIs Learn How to Architect and Design Long-lasting APIs - 2016/2017
• Free API and Microservice Books APIAcademy - 2019
• Building APIs You Won’t Hate Everyone and their dog wants an API, so you should probably learn how to build them by Phil Sturgeon - 2013/2014
• REST in Practice - Hypermedia and Systems Architecture Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis, Ian Robinson (O’Reilly) - 2010
• REST API - Designrule Book Mark Massé (O’Reilly) - 2011
• RESTful Web APIs Leonard Richardson, Mike Amundsen (O’Reilly) - 2013
• RESTful Web Services Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby (O’Reilly) - 2007
• RESTful Web Services Cookbook Subbu Allamaraju (O’Reilly) - 2010
• Undisturbed REST - A guide to designing the perfect API Michael Stowe (MuleSoft) - 2015
• The Little Book on REST Services Kenneth Lange - 2016
• Web API Design: The Missing Link - Best Practices for Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love Apigee - 2018
• Pro RESTful APIs - Design, Build and Integrate with REST, JSON, XML and JAX-RS Sanjay Patni (Apress) - 2017

API guidelines

Collection of useful links related to REST API architecture

• API Guidelines in the Wild Erik Wilde guidelines overview- 2022