There are many more excellent resources, most of them crosslinked in one of the learning section. ### Important resources * [The Common Lisp HyperSpec](http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/common-lisp.html), by X3J13 committee. The Common Lisp Standard * [Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html), by Guy Steele * [Common Lisp Document Repository](http://cdr.eurolisp.org/) a collection of emergent and de-facto standards * [Common-Lisp.net](http://common-lisp.net/), project hosting and gateway * [The Common Lisp Wiki](http://www.cliki.net/) ### Free books There are many other great books you can find links to. These are the most popularly linked introductory works. * [Practical Common Lisp](http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/), by Peter Seibel * [Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation](http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/dst/www/LispBook/index.html) (PDF), by David S. Touretzky * [Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach](http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/) (PDF), by Stuart C. Shapiro * [Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp](http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/cover.html), by David B. Lamkins Following these are two more advanced books, but beginners shouldn't be afraid of them, they're quite accessible and "classics". * [On Lisp](http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html), by Paul Graham * [Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs](http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/), by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman The last is actually on a related Lisp dialect, Scheme, but it's very helpful book, generally. If you find you prefer Scheme, it's an excellent start.