For me, during the university ANSI Common Lisp was the Kernighan & Ritchie of Lisp - a standalone physical source of everything that I needed to start doing int

For me, during the university ANSI Common Lisp was the Kernighan & Ritchie of Lisp - a standalone physical source of everything that I needed to start doing interesting things. Since then I haven't found another "canonical book" for another language that I jumped on, instead relying basically on internet. On that line, I loved "The haskell school of expression", though!