Some Lisp books

caveat: tthis is not a best-of nor a comprehensive list of Lisp books; it is merely a selection of Lisp books you may not have heard of or that special to me in some way. If you find this post interesting then you might like my yearly best-of posts.

My first Lisp book:

symbolic-comp

My first Lisp:

lisp-stat

My favorite undergrad Lisp/Prolog book:

lisp-prolog

My favorite Lisp:

T

The best Lisp book I’ve ever read and could ever possibly read1:

arch

Chouser’s book:

joy

Mind-blowing and bombastic:

letoverlambda excerpts at the author’s site

The best Clojure book for beginners:

clojure-book

Language implementation 101:

lang-impl-101

Some books are worth any price

On Lisp by Paul Graham

on-lisp

Compiling with Continuations by Andrew Appel2

k

Lisp in Small Pieces by Christian Queinnec

LiSP

LISP 1.5 Programmer’s Manual by John McCarthy

lisp15

Applicative Higher-order Programming by Stefan Sokolowski

applicative

PAIP

paip

:F


  1. This is one of those “I wish I had written this” books.↩︎

  2. Appel also wrote a series of compiler implementation books in various languages that I’ve yet to read. Any thoughts on the series?↩︎