Rereading my comment, I was going to add an edit about examples. PG's two Lisp books have non-trivial examples, among them PROLOG in Lisp and an inference engine. Seibel's Practical Common Lisp also contains reasonable examples - though not as full blown as PG's.

My gut tells me that the Cpp book market is mature. Clojure is a language where one could combine the literary tradition of Lisp with the sobriety of the Java shop.