Here are some of my personal favorite AI and Lisp books. I can recommend all of these books from personal experience. Click on the book titles to see more information or to order them on-line. For more information on Common Lisp, see my Lisp resources page.

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• Basic Common Lisp Books
  • Lisp Books without an AI Slant: ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham. This book gives the best introduction to Common Lisp as a general-purpose programming language. A bit hard going for inexperienced programmers, however.
  • Lisp Books with an AI Slant: Lisp by Winston and Horn. The classic AI-applications-in-Common-Lisp text.
• Advanced Common Lisp Books
  • Lisp Books without an AI Slant: On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp by Paul Graham. Amazingly deep coverage of Common Lisp macros and closures.
  • Lisp Books with an AI Slant: Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp by Peter Norvig. My single all-time favorite Common Lisp book. I'm perhaps slighly biased as I acted as a technical reviewer when the book was being written, but still, this book is truly great.
• CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) Books
  • Object Oriented Programming in Common Lisp: A Programmers Guide to the Common Lisp Object System by Sonya Keene.
• Common Lisp Reference Books
  • Common Lisp: The Language by Guy L. Steele Jr. The definitive Common Lisp reference book prior to the release of the ANSI spec. Look up "kludges" in the book's index for some good geek humor. My other favorite is the "BOA constructor" business.
• Scheme (really programming and algorithms) Books
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson, Sussman, and Sussman. One of the best Computer Science texts I've ever seen. More good stuff in the footnotes than in the entire contents of most other books.
• Artificial Intelligence Books (roughly in order of preference)
  • Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig. If I had to pick one AI text, this would be it.
  • Essentials of Artificial Intelligence by Matt Ginsberg. This book gives an entertaining and concise introduction to the best-established areas of AI.
  • Artificial Intelligence Theory and Practice by Dean, Allen, and Aloimonos. A good AI book that includes some coverage of (and examples in) Common Lisp.
  • Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving by Luger and Stubblefield. If you want a good AI book that includes some coverage of Lisp and Prolog, this is the book for you.
  • Artificial Intelligence by Patrick Henry Winston. The classic AI text. A bit heavy on the topic of learning.

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• Java and Web Programming Books.
  OK, ok, so these books don't have anything to do with Lisp. But I couldn't resist.
  • Core Web Programming by Marty Hall (see why I couldn't resist? :-).
  • A long list of my other favorite Java and WWW Programming books.