A bibliography of Lisp books from the Association of Lisp Users

by Paul Graham (1996) combines an introduction to Lisp programming, and a convenient, up-to-date reference manual for ANSI Common Lisp.

A variety of books on Common Lisp programming and AI, personally chosen by an experienced developer.

This book provides a very good introduction to the Lisp programming language for beginners. Even if you have never before programmed in any language you will be able to use this book. Although it is aimed at beginners it covers all relevant Lisp topics quite thoroughly. The entire book is online and can be downloaded in PDF format.

by Stuart Shapiro (1992)

By Patrick Winston and Berthold Horn (1989)

Stephen Slade (1998). This is probably the best book available on actually using a Common Lisp environment for something other than AI programming. [Amazon]

By Paul Graham (1994) is a comprehensive study of advanced Lisp techniques, with bottom-up programming as the unifying theme. It gives the first complete description of macros and macro applications. The book also covers important subjects related to bottom-up programming, including functional programming, rapid prototyping, interactive development, and embedded languages.Download as PDF.

Case Studies in Common Lisp. By Peter Norvig (1992)

Online version of Peter Seibel's Common Lisp book published by Apress in 2005. Focuses on putting Common Lisp to practical use with examples projects such as a spam filter, ID3 parser, and Shoutcast server. Source code downloads.

This book provides an overview of Common Lisp for the working programmer. It includes discussion and examples of advanced constructs for iteration, error handling, object oriented programming, graphical user interfaces, and threading. The entire book is available online!

A collaborative project that aims to provide for Common Lisp something similar to the Perl Cookbook published by O'Reilly.