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copied!<p>Actually, there are quite a few free CL books available online:</p> <p><a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">"Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation"</a> covers the basics, but might be too gentle, depending on your level.</p> <p><a href="http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/contents.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">"Successful Lisp"</a> is quite comprehensive, and IMHO the best online resource for learning CL, if you have already programmed a little in another language.</p> <p><a href="http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">"Practical Common Lisp"</a> aims to reach experienced programmers and surely is one of the best Lisp books available -- one of the few which explicitly try to explain "real world usage".</p> <p><a href="http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">"On Lisp"</a> is an interesting read for advanced CL programmers, mostly covering macros.</p> <p>Besides those, there is the indispensable <a href="http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Front/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Hyperspec</a>, a htmlized version of the standard, and <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CLtL2</a>, which is was the pre-ANSI de facto standard (still valuable, since many people find it more accessible than the Hyperspec. At least it sometimes shows things from another perspective).</p> <p>Finally, there is the <a href="http://www.lispforum.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Lisp Forum</a> and c.l.lisp. Though there is much noise on c.l.l., you can get very insightful answers there and learn from the masters. As a newbie, one should try to post thoughtful questions on c.l.l., and have a thick skin.</p>

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