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Booklist August 2026

by Jan Holbo Rasmussen

Booklist, August 2026

This is my current book list as of early august 2026. Books I want to read, but have yet to. Some I have probably started a few times, some looked at, some just looked interesting.

I will try to post an updated list from time to time. And the plan is still to read a book all the way through and hopefully post a review of it.

AI

  • AI Agents in Action, Second Edition (Lanham, M: Manning, 2026)
  • Designing AI Agents (Huang, J: Manning MEAP)

Development

  • Effective Behavior-Driven Development (Nagy, G & Rose, S: Manning MEAP)
  • Learning Git, A Skoulikari (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)
  • The Art of Unit Testing, Third Edition (with examples in JavaScript) (Osherove, Khorikov, Manning, 2024)

Web development

  • A Pythonic Adventure, P Anni(Manning, 2023)
  • Build a Frontend Web Framework (From Scratch) (Orbaiceta, AS: Manning, 2024)
  • FastAPI, B Lubanovic (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)

DevOps

  • Ansible: Up & Running 3rd ed, B Meijer L Hochstein & R Moser (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)
  • Docker: Up & Running 3rd ed, S P Kane & K Matthias (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)
  • Kubernetes: Up & Running 3rd ed, Burns et al (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)
  • Learning DevSecOps, S Suehring (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2024)
  • Learning GitHub Actions, B Laster (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)
  • Python for DevOps, N. Gift et al (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2020)
  • Terraform: Up and Running 3rd ed, Y Brikman (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)

Networks

  • Network Programmability & Automation 2nd ed, M Oswalt et al (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)

Security

  • The Art of Network Penetration Testing (Davis, R: Manning, 2020)
  • Web Application Security 2nd ed, Hoffman (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2024)

System Administration

  • Efficient Linux at the Command Line, D J Barrett (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)

  • Learning Modern Linux, M Hausenblas (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)

  • Linux Pocket Guide 4th ed, D J Barrett  (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2022)

  • Practical Linux System Administration, K Hess (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly, 2023)

  • Learn PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, Fourth Edition (Petty J, Jones D & Hicks J: Manning, 2024)

  • Learn PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition (Petty J, et al: Manning, 2022)

Wish list

  • Clean Architectures in Python, L Giordani (Digital Cat Books)
  • Architecture Patterns with Python, H J W Percival & B Gregory (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly)
  • Microservice APIs, J H Peralta  (Manning)