Reddit reviews ANSI Common LISP

Thank you all for your responses! I have compiled a list of books mentioned by at least three different people below. Since some books have abbreviations (SICP) or colloquial names (Dragon Book), not to mention the occasional omission of a starting "a" or "the" this was done by hand and as a result it may contain errors.

edit: This list is now books mentioned by at least three people (was two) and contains posts up to icepack's.

edit: Updated with links to Amazon.com. These are not affiliate - Amazon was picked because they provide the most uniform way to compare books.

edit: Updated up to redline6561

• 14 The C Programming Language
  
• 11 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  
• 8 Introduction to Algorithms
  
• 7 Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools
  
• 6 Programming Erlang
  
• 5 The Mythical Man-Month
  
• 5 The Pragmatic Programmer
  
• 5 Applied Cryptography
  
• 4 Beautiful Code
  
• 4 The Little Schemer
  
• 4 Programming Perl
  
• 3 Types and Programming Languages
  
• 3 Gödel, Escher, Bach
  
• 3 OpenGL Programming Guide
  
• 3 Code Complete
  
• 3 Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
  
• 3 Programming Pearls
  
• 3 ANSI Common Lisp
  
• 3 A Brief History of Time
  
• 3 Agile Web Development with Rails
  
• 3 Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
  
• 3 Modern Operating Systems
  
• 3 Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
  
• 3 Operating System Design and Implementation
  
  

Some context, I've been living in this house for about 3 years now, my girlfriend and i moved in to take care of the owner of the house. Turns out that he was a big lisp / scheme hacker back in the 80s-90s and had developed a lot of cutting edge tech in his hay day. Anyway, these books have been hiding in his library downstairs...

It was like finding a bunch of hidden magical scrolls of lost knowledge :)

edit: I will compile a list of the books later. I'm out doing 4th of July things.

update: List of books

• Lisp: Style and Design by Molly M. Miller and Eric Benson
  ISBN: 1-55558-044-0
  
  
• Common Lisp The Language Second Edition by Guy L. Steele
  ISBN: 1-55558-042-4
  
  
• The Little LISPer Trade Edition by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen
  ISBN: 0-262-56038-0
  
  
• Common LISPcraft by Robert Wilensky
  ISBN: 0-393-95544-3
  
  
• Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp by Sonya E. Keene
  ISBN: 0-201-17589-4
  
  
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman w/Julie Sussman
  ISBN: 0-07-000-422-6
  
  
• ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham
  ISBN: 0-13-370875-6
  
  
• Programming Paradigms in LISP by Rajeev Sangal
  ISBN: 0-07-054666-5
  
  
• The Art of the Metaobject Protocol by Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivieres, and Daniel G. Bobrow
  ISBN: 0-262-11158-6
  
  
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig
  ISBN: 1-55860-191-0
  
  
• Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel
  ISBN: 1-59059-239-5
  
  
• Common Lisp The Language by Guy L. Steele
  ISBN: 0-932376-41-X
  
  
• Anatomy of Lisp by John Allen
  ISBN: 0-07-001115-X
  
  
• Lisp Objects, and Symbolic Programming by Robert R. Kessler
  ISBN: 0-673-39773-4
  
  
• Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems by Richard P. Gabriel
  ISBN: 0-262-07093-6
  
  
• A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp by Deborah G. Tatar
  ISBN: 0-932376-87-8
  
  
• Understanding CLOS The Common Lisp Object System by Jo A. Lawless and Molly M. Miller
  ISBN: 0-13-717232-X
  
  
• The Common Lisp Companion by Tim D. Koschmann
  ISBN: 0-417-50308-8
  
  
• Symbolic Computing with Lisp and Prolog by Robert A. Mueller and Rex L. Page
  ISBN: 0-471-60771-1
  
  
• Scheme and the Art of Programming by George Springer and Daniel P. Friedman
  ISBN: 0-262-19288-8
  
  
• Programming In Scheme by Michael Eisenberg
  ISBN: 0-262-55017-2
  
  
• The Schematics of Computation by Vincent S. Manis and James J. Little
  ISBN: 0-13-834284-9
  
  
• The Joy of Clojure by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser
  ISBN: 1-935182-64-1
  
  
• Clojure For The Brave and True by Daniel Higginbotham
  ISBN: 978-1-59327-591-4
  
  
  
  

The Common Lisp textbook used at Tulane.

Well, it's still in print. And it's worth getting.

I'd also recommend Paul Graham's own ANSI Common Lisp: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0133708756/

I liked it slightly better than Practical Common Lisp for getting the Lisp way of thinking across... Not as much, um, practical code, though.

Oh, and if you really want an "aha" experience then there's
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp by Norvig: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558601910/ which both introduces Common Lisp and takes you all the way up through writing classical AI systems using it.