Personaly i found abcl a bad experience.
Thoughts on ecl & clisp ?
sbcl works nice & fine. But i’t’s the only lisp implementation i know.
There are good books on racket-scheme & chez-cheme.
The only book i know for lisp is, “Common lisp , a gentle introduction to symbolic computing”.
Without additional packages, the sbcl repl doesn’t support history nor sensible editing.
The best REPL is Emacs/Sly, anyways.