Practical Common LISP. Peter Seibel

It has a fresh view on the language and the examples in the later
chapters are usable in your day-to-day work as a programmer. — Frank
Buss, Lisp Programmer and Slashdot Contributor

If you’re interested in Lisp as it relates to Python or Perl, and want
to learn through doing rather than watching, Practical Common Lisp is an
excellent entry point. — Chris McAvoy, Chicago Python Users Group

Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be.
This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real
world.
Practical Common Lisp presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp,
providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and
how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical
examples such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for
browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any
standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other
“practical” chapters, author Peter Seibel demonstrates how to build a
simple but flexible in-memory database, how to parse binary files, and
how to build a unit test framework in 26 lines of code



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