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Java Books Recommended on Hacker News

These Java books are ranked using Hacker News discussions, comment activity, and editorial review. The list focuses on books for learning modern Java, concurrency, performance, generics, and practical application development.

Top 5 quick picks

#1 Effective Java, 3rd Edition #2 Java Concurrency in Practice #3 Head First Java, 3rd Edition #4 Java Generics and Collections #5 Java Performance: The Definitive Guide
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Effective Java, 3rd Edition cover

1. Effective Java, 3rd Edition

by Joshua Bloch
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Java Concurrency in Practice cover

2. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz
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Head First Java, 3rd Edition cover

3. Head First Java, 3rd Edition

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Java Generics and Collections cover

4. Java Generics and Collections

by Maurice Naftalin, Philip Wadler
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Java Performance: The Definitive Guide cover

5. Java Performance: The Definitive Guide

by Scott Oaks
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Learning Java cover

6. Learning Java

by Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen
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Java Cookbook cover

7. Java Cookbook

by Ian F. Darwin
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Java: The Good Parts: Unearthing the Excellence in Java cover

8. Java: The Good Parts: Unearthing the Excellence in Java

by Jim Waldo
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Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power Of Java 8 Lambda Expressions cover

9. Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power Of Java 8 Lambda Expressions

by Venkat Subramaniam
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Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition cover

10. Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition

by David Flanagan
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Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach cover

11. Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach

by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
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Algorithms in Java, Parts 1-4 cover

12. Algorithms in Java, Parts 1-4

by Robert Sedgewick
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