2025 Software Development Interview List (19 books)

Books I need to read through for interviewing this year.

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1	100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them by Teiva Harsanyi (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 235 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Building Generative AI Services with FastAPI: A Practical Approach to Developing Context-Rich Generative AI Applications by Ali Parandeh 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 675 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications by Chip Huyen (Goodreads Author) 4.46 avg rating — 990 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Developer's Playbook for Large Language Model Security: Building Secure AI Applications by Steve Wilson 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Build a Large Language Model by Sebastian Raschka 4.63 avg rating — 247 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation by Jay Alammar 4.33 avg rating — 199 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (Goodreads Author) 4.70 avg rating — 10,394 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Generative AI in Action by Amit Bahree 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Generative Deep Learning: Teaching Machines to Paint, Write, Compose, and Play by David Foster (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 255 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Natural Language Processing with Transformers: Building Language Applications with Hugging Face by Lewis Tunstall 4.40 avg rating — 206 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science by Ronald T. Kneusel (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 163 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work by Alex Petrov (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 543 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale by Neha Narkhede 4.15 avg rating — 719 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik (Goodreads Author) 4.51 avg rating — 847 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Rust for Rustaceans by Jon Gjengset (Goodreads Author) 4.52 avg rating — 307 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Python Workout by Reuven M. Lerner 4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Pandas Workout by Reuven Lerner 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming by Luciano Ramalho (Goodreads Author) 4.62 avg rating — 1,763 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars