10 Books Every Experienced Java Developer Should Read

Looking for books to take your Java skills to next level? Here are my favorite Java books for experienced developers

Apart form programming, one of my passion is to read books. I have hundreds of e-books on my smartphone and PC and tens of book on my self, especially related to Java.

Since I have benefited a lot from the book, I am going to share my collection of Java related books, which I think every senior developer should read.

By saying senior Java developer, I mean anyone doing programming in Java for more than 3 to 4 years.

You don’t need to buy these books, you can download PDF from Internet for some of them, or you can borrow it from your friends or library, but your must read these books.

Sometime, I end up purchasing the book but never get chance to read it, that’s what I hate. If you have book which looks like new even after one year of purchase, then you have not read it.

This is why I also like to borrow books from friends and library. This put me some pressure to read at least couple of chapters before returning it :-)

By the way, if you are new to Java programming language or want to improve Java skills then you can also checkout following best Java courses to get better:

1. The Complete Java Masterclass (covers Java 17)
2. Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals Specialization Certificate on Coursera
3. Java Programming Bootcamp: Zero to Mastery
4. The Complete Java Programming Masterclass! [Karpado]
5. CodeGym (learn Java by building Games)

These are my favorite online courses and platforms to learn Java from scratch and also build your Java skills. If you need more advanced courses to take your Java skill to next level you can also see following articles:

10 Books For Experienced Java Developers to Improve Java Skills

Anyway here is my list of 10 books every Senior Java developer should read

1. Refactoring, Improving design of existing code

Must read, if you don’t want to end up on a code review hell.

2. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Not for faint hearted, so read with courage.

3 Modern Java in action

IF you are still coding in old Java style then you must read this.

4. Java Network Programming

5. Java Regular Expressions: Taming the java.util.regex Engine

6. The Well-Grounded Java Developer: Vital techniques of Java 7 and polyglot programming

7. Java Concurrency in Practice

8. Effective Java

If you want to read just one book, read this one.

9. Java Performance The Definitive Guide By Scott Oaks

10) Real World Java EE patterns and best practices

Java and Spring Interview Preparation Material

Before any Java and Spring Developer interview, I always use to read the below resources

Grokking the Java Interview

Grokking the Java Interview: click here

I have personally bought these books to speed up my preparation.

You can get your sample copy here, check the content of it and go for it

Grokking the Java Interview [Free Sample Copy]: click here

If you want to prepare for the Spring Boot interview you follow this consolidated ebook, it also contains microservice questions from spring boot interviews.

Grokking the Spring Boot Interview

You can get your copy here — Grokking the Spring Boot Interview

That’s all friends, do let me know how do you find this list of books. Do you agree that every senior developer should read this book and can improve their knowledge.

Do let me know if you think a book should be in this list which is not yet. You can also suggest me good books, I love books and really like to know about those hidden gems which I have not discovered yet.

By the way, if you are new to Java programming language or want to improve Java skills then you can also checkout following best Java courses to get better:

1. The Complete Java Masterclass (covers Java 17)
2. Java Programming and Software Engineering Fundamentals Specialization Certificate on Coursera
3. Java Programming Bootcamp: Zero to Mastery
4. The Complete Java Programming Masterclass! [Karpado]
5. CodeGym (learn Java by building Games)

These are my favorite online courses and platforms to learn Java from scratch and also build your Java skills. If you need more advanced courses to take your Java skill to next level you can also see following articles: