The specification is (mostly) exhaustive, but would make a very poor introduction into the language. Common Lisp the Language (2nd ed.) [1] by Guy Steele himse

The specification is (mostly) exhaustive, but would make a very poor introduction into the language. Common Lisp the Language (2nd ed.) [1] by Guy Steele himself gives good background information, but I wouldn't recommend it as introductory text either (and it isn't meant to). Practical Common Lisp [2] by Peter Seibel does IMHO a pretty good job at that. [1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html [2] https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ https://gigamonkeys.com/book/