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A list of _(favorite Lisp books). Online books: <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html">(On Lisp)</a> by <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com">Paul Graham</a></li> <li> <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 2nd Edition</a> (_(SICP)) by Abelson and Sussman <li><a href="http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/">Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation</a> by <a href="http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/">David S. Touretzky</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/">Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach</a> by <a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/">Stuart C. Shapiro</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/cover.html">Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp</a> by David B. Lamkins</li> <li><a href="http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/">Practical Common Lisp</a> by Peter Seibel</li> <li><a href="http://www.lisp.org/mop/">The Common Lisp Object System MetaObject Protocol</a></li> <li><a href="http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf">LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual</a> by McCarthy et al</li> <li><a href="http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/LISP/book/Weismann_LISP1.5_Primer_1967.pdf">LISP 1.5 Primer</a> by Clark Weissman</li> <li><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html">Common Lisp, the Language, 2nd ed</a> by Guy Steele et al</li> <li><a href="http://www.mikemac.com/mikemac/clim/cover.html">Common Lisp Interface Manager CLIM II Specification</a> by McKay, York, et al</li> <li><a href="http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/lisp_lic.htm">Loving Lisp - the Savy Programmer's Secret Weapon</a> by Mark Watson</li> <li><a href="http://www.dreamsongs.com/Books.html">Patterns of Software</a> by <a href="http://www.dreamsongs.com/">Richard Gabriel</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.dreamsongs.com/Books.html">Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems</a> by <a href="http://www.dreamsongs.com/">Richard Gabriel</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/91/HPL-91-182.html">PCLOS Reference Manual</a> by Andreas Paepcke</li> <li><a href="http://www.civilized.com/getlisp.html">Interpreting LISP</a> by Gary D. Knott</li> <li><a href="http://community.computerhistory.org/scc/projects/LISP/book/III_LispBook_Apr66.pdf">The Programming Language LISP: Its Operation and Applications</a> Berkeley and Bobrow, editors</li> </ul> Offline books with web pages: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html">ANSI Common Lisp</a> by <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/">Paul Graham</a> <ul> <li>_(Chris Riesbeck)'s <a href="http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/c25/readings/">AI course website</a> has a collection of tips on Lisp and almost page-by-page comments of _(Paul Graham)'s _(ANSI Common Lisp).</li> </ul> </li> <li>"_(PAIP)", <a href="http://www.norvig.com/paip.html">Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp</a> by <a href="http://www.norvig.com/">Peter Norvig</a></li> <li><a href="http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html">Lisp in Small Pieces</a> by Christian Queinnec</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/phw/Books/#Lisp">Lisp, 3rd ed</a> by <a href="http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/phw/">Patrick H. Winston</a> and Berthold K. P. Horn</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~sslade/lisp/">Object-Oriented Common LISP</a> by <a href="http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~sslade/">Stephen Slade </a>[BROKEN, but available via <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040604041639/pages.stern.nyu.edu/~sslade/lisp/">wayback machine</a>]</li> <li><a href="http://www.markwatson.com/books/">Common LISP Modules. Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory</a> by Mark Watson.</li> <li><a href="http://letoverlambda.com/">Let Over Lambda</a> by Doug Hoyte.</li> <li><a href="http://landoflisp.com/">Land of Lisp </a> by Conrad Barski.</li> </ul> Other interesting things: <ul> <li><a href="http://reference.kfupm.edu.sa/content/x/p/xp__a_common_lisp_pretty_printing_system_99649.pdf">XP. A Common Lisp Pretty Printing System</a> explains how to write better PRINT-OBJECT functions </ul> Lisp books pages on cliki: /("Lisp books" :attribute :topic :match :exact :case-sensitive t)
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