I haven’t updated my blog for a few months now, mostly because I’ve been too busy writing Scala code! The number of high quality Scala books being published has continued to swell since the last time I blogged about this topic, which bodes well for the Scala community. I’ve updated the list of Scala books to include ten new books: Scala Cookbook, Testing in Scala, Learning Scala, Atomic Scala, Akka in Action, Effective Akka, Akka Essentials, Lift Cookbook, Instant Lift Web Applications How-to, and Functional Programming Patterns in Scala and Clojure. The Scala Cookbook form O’Reilly is particularly good, a favourite of mine alongside Scala for the Impatient and Odersky & Co.’s Programming in Scala. As an aside be sure to follow the Scala subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/scala as traffic is starting to pick up and it is a great source of Scala news and discussion.

This brings the list of books published on Scala to at least 24 (roughly in order of preference):

Not strictly a book, but there’s also some good documentation of Akka (including an ebook) on the Akka website: http://akka.io/docs/

If I’ve forgotten to include any new books on Scala be sure to comment about it in the comments section. Also, what is your favourite Scala book and why?