Elixir Books on Functional Programming

by Joseph Koski

Combine advanced functional programming concepts with production-ready Elixir and proven domain-driven design techniques to write cleaner, more thoughtful software. You’ll explore foundational ideas like equality, ordering, predicates, monoids, and monads—then go beyond syntax as you develop intuition for composing logic, modeling behavior, and growing systems. With a focus on maintainable, declarative code over theory, you’ll gain practical, composable patterns you can apply right away.

by Alexander Koutmos

Discover time-tested design patterns in the Elixir ecosystem. Learn how to organize code, improve readability, and solve recurring problems with idiomatic, functional solutions.

by Bruce Tate

Programmer Passport: OTP is a fast-paced, hands-on guide to mastering the foundations of Elixir’s reliability and concurrency. You’ll learn to build fault-tolerant, self-healing systems using OTP’s core abstractions like GenServers and Supervisors—the same principles powering world-class telecom infrastructure. Perfect for Elixir developers ready to take their skills to the next level and understand how real-world resilient systems are built.

by Bruce Tate

Programmer Passport: Elixir is a fast-paced introduction to the Elixir programming language, blending insights from Ruby, Erlang, Lisp, and Haskell into one powerful functional ecosystem. You’ll explore Elixir’s core datatypes, concurrency model, and macro system while learning practical techniques for writing efficient, expressive code. Guided by an experienced author, this book helps you grasp Elixir’s unique mindset and build confidence in writing scalable, reliable applications.

by Dave Thomas

This book is the introduction to Elixir for experienced programmers, completely updated for Elixir 1.6 and beyond. Explore functional programming without the academic overtones (tell me about monads just one more time). Create concurrent applications, but get them right without all the locking and consistency headaches.

by Ulisses Almeida

Learn Functional Programming with Elixir is a practical, beginner-friendly guide that teaches you how to think and code functionally - no prior experience required. You’ll explore Elixir’s clean syntax while mastering core concepts like immutability, pattern matching, recursion, higher-order functions, and failure handling. By the end, you’ll not only understand Elixir’s tools but also gain the functional mindset needed to write scalable, maintainable software.

by Lance Halvorsen

A practical guide that teaches you to build web applications using functional principles in Elixir with Phoenix and OTP.