The best Clojure book in my personal experience (and fwiw) is O'Reilly's "Clojure Programming" by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, and Christophe Grand. Extremely cl

The best Clojure book in my personal experience (and fwiw) is O'Reilly's "Clojure Programming" by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, and Christophe Grand. Extremely clear writing, and very knowledgeable authors. I really enjoyed working through the book. Due Disclosure: 1. I was an experienced Haskell and Java programmer, when I read the books, so I didn't have to go through any culture shocks wrt either Java or FP. 2. I have used Clojure only for toy projects. My 'daily use' tools are Haskell, C and Lua. 3. I am not in the audience targeted by 'cute cartoons and corny jokes' books. the _why style, nothing wrong with that, I just find most of this 'cute' style to be wasting my time. If it works for you that is awesome 4. I found the tooling around Clojure weird and unintuitive, especially Leiningen. Apparently there are better alternatives now All that said, if I had to work on the JVM again, I'd use Clojure in a heartbeat. If I start a Clojure based company, Clojure Programming would be what I ask new employees who are unfamiliar with Clojure to work through. I can't recommend the book enough. There was some talk of an updated edition, which I'd buy the instant it came out.