A compilation of helpful books and references focused on REST API design and architecture.
API Design Literature
- Patterns for API Design Olaf Zimmermann, Mirko Stocker, Daniel Lübke, Uwe Zdun, Cesare Pautasso. Addison-Wesley, 2022
- Principles of WEB API Design James Higginbotham. Addison-Wesley, 2021
API Architecture Literature
- 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 Design Guidelines
- API Guidelines in the Wild Erik Wilde guidelines overview- 2024