Racket is a very practical language. If you have the impression that it's some academic quirk you should take a look at what Bogdan Popa is doing with it: https://defn.io/
When I personally want a binary with a native GUI I turn to Racket. It's also pretty nice for parsing stuff, like JSON, XML, some text-file formats.
The companion book How to design programs, https://htdp.org/2023-8-14/Book/index.html , is nice too, while it doesn't exactly teach Racket (it uses a couple of teaching languages implemented in Racket) it has some valuable ideas that are good to be reminded of every now and then.
The macro system might seem weird if one comes from e.g. CL, but once I got used to it I found it relatively easy to stay sane while doing metaprogramming.
A couple of more resources that are useful: