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    <p>Short answer:</p> <p>The fundamental reading list for a lisp interpreter is SICP. I would not at all call it overkill, if you feel you are overqualified for the first parts of the book jump to chapter 4 and start interpreting away (although I feel this would be a loss since chapters 1-3 really are that good!).</p> <p>Add LISP in Small Pieces (LISP from now on), chapters 1-3. Especially chapter 3 if you need to implement any non-trivial control forms.</p> <p>See this post by Jens Axel Søgaard on a minimal self-hosting Scheme: <a href="http://www.scheme.dk/blog/2006/12/self-evaluating-evaluator.html" rel="noreferrer">http://www.scheme.dk/blog/2006/12/self-evaluating-evaluator.html</a> .</p> <p>A slightly longer answer:</p> <p>It is hard to give advice without knowing what you require from your interpreter.</p> <ul> <li>does it really really need to be an interpreter, or do you actually need to be able to execute lisp code?</li> <li>does it need to be fast?</li> <li>does it need standards compliance? Common Lips? R5RS? R6RS? Any SFRIs you need?</li> </ul> <p>If you need anything more fancy than a simple syntax tree walker I would strongly recommend embedding a fast scheme subsystem. Gambit scheme comes to mind: <a href="http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" rel="noreferrer">http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Main_Page</a> .</p> <p>If that is not an option chapter 5 in SICP and chapters 5-- in LISP target compilation for faster execution.</p> <p>For faster interpretation I would take a look at the most recent JavaScript interpreters/compilers. There seem to be a lot of thought going into fast JavaScript execution, and you can probably learn from them. V8 cites two important papers: <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/v8/design.html" rel="noreferrer">http://code.google.com/apis/v8/design.html</a> and squirrelfish cites a couple: <a href="http://webkit.org/blog/189/announcing-squirrelfish/" rel="noreferrer">http://webkit.org/blog/189/announcing-squirrelfish/</a> .</p> <p>There is also the canonical scheme papers: <a href="http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html" rel="noreferrer">http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html</a> for the RABBIT compiler.</p> <p>If I engage in a bit of premature speculation, memory management might be the tough nut to crack. Nils M Holm has published a book "Scheme 9 from empty space" <a href="http://www.t3x.org/s9fes/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.t3x.org/s9fes/</a> which includes a simple stop-the-world mark and sweep garbage collector. Source included.</p> <p>John Rose (of newer JVM fame) has written a paper on integrating Scheme to C: <a href="http://library.readscheme.org/servlets/cite.ss?pattern=AcmDL-Ros-92" rel="noreferrer">http://library.readscheme.org/servlets/cite.ss?pattern=AcmDL-Ros-92</a> .</p>
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