The Best Lisp Books According to Hacker News

These Lisp books are ranked using Hacker News discussions, comment activity, and editorial review. The list focuses primarily on Common Lisp, with books for beginners, advanced users, and readers interested in language implementation.

Top 5 quick picks

#1 Lisp in Small Pieces #2 Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp #3 Land of Lisp #4 On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp #5 Lisp

Showing 1 - 9 of 9 books

1. Lisp in Small Pieces

by Christian Queinnec

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2. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

by Peter Norvig

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3. Land of Lisp

by Conrad Barski

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4. On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp

by Paul Graham

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5. Lisp

by Patrick Henry Winston, Berthold Horn

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6. The Common Lisp Condition System: Beyond Exception Handling with Control Flow Mechanisms

by Michał "phoe" Herda

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7. Common LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (Dover Books on Engineering)

by David S. Touretzky

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8. An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp

by Richard Stallman

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9. The Genius of Lisp

by Cees de Groot

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