ALU: Lisp Books
A bibliography of Lisp books from the Association of Lisp Users
url: www.elwoodcorp.com/alu/table/bibliography.htm
ANSI Common Lisp
by Paul Graham (1996) combines an introduction to Lisp programming, and a convenient, up-to-date reference manual for ANSI Common Lisp.
url: www.paulgraham.com/acl.html
Best Lisp Books
A variety of books on Common Lisp programming and AI, personally chosen by an experienced developer.
url: www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp-books.html
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation
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.
url: www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/
Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach
by Stuart Shapiro (1992)
url: www.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/faculty/shapiro/Common...
The Common Lisp Cookbook
A collaborative project that aims to provide for Common Lisp something similar to the Perl Cookbook published by O'Reilly.
url: cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/
Lisp in Small Pieces
by Christian Queinnec (1996). This book covers Lisp, Scheme and other related dialects, their interpretation, semantics and compilation. To sum it up in a few figures: 500 pages, 11 chapters, 11 interpreters and 2 compilers.
url: videoc.lip6.fr/queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html
Lisp, 3rd ed.
By Patrick Winston and Berthold Horn (1989)
url: www.ai.mit.edu/people/phw/Books/#Lisp
Object-Oriented Common LISP
Stephen Slade (1998). This is probably the best book available on actually using a Common Lisp environment for something other than AI programming.
url: pages.stern.nyu.edu/~sslade/lisp/
On Lisp
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.
url: www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming:
Case Studies in Common Lisp. By Peter Norvig (1992)
url: www.norvig.com/paip.html
Successful Lisp
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!
url: www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/cover.html
