A Curriculum for LLMs & Agents

Published
Apr 29, 2026
Reading time
1 min

The field of artificial intelligence is moving at a ferocious rate. I'm pretty certain the books I want to read will be, at least in part, obsolete by the time I get to them. Undaunted though, here is the list of books I'm reading to get deep into LLMs and agentic AI.

I have a particular interest in graphs, hence my interest in the books "Agentic Mesh" and "Knowledge Graphs and LLMs in Action". If you are using this list as a starting point and don't share by, admittedly nerdy, graph fascination, you may want to skip those.

Type Resource
Book DONE - Developing Apps with GPT-4 and ChatGPT
Book DONE- AI Engineering
Book DONE - Prompt Engineering for Generative AI
Book READING - Agentic Mesh
Book Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)
Book A Common-Sense Guide to AI Engineering
Book Hands-On Large Language Models
Book Designing Large Language Model Applications
Book Generative AI Design Patterns
Book Designing Autonomous AI
Book Agentic Artificial Intelligence
Book AI Agents in Action
Book Agentic Design Patterns
Book Knowledge Graphs and LLMs in Action

Did I miss any books worth reading? If so, let me know.

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