Fungi


Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
Mexican Gothic
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From a Hidden World
Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms
Radical Mycology: A Treatise On Seeing & Working With Fungi
Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mourning
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms
Annihilation by Jeff VandermeerThe Day of the Triffids by John WyndhamSemiosis by Sue BurkeWeather and Beasts and Growing Things by Charlotte SutteeWild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore
Weird Botany
45 books — 19 voters
The Mushroom Fan Club by Elise GravelPoison Ivy, Vol. 1 by G. Willow WilsonFruiting Bodies by Ashley Robin FranklinThe Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria MachadoThe Last of Us by Neil Druckmann
Fungi in Comics
13 books — 3 voters


Peter Wohlleben
A good upbringing is necessary for a long life, but sometimes the patience of the young trees is sorely tested. As I mentioned in chapter 5, "Tree Lottery," acorns and beechnuts fall at the feet of large "mother trees." Dr. Suzanne Simard, who helped discover maternal instincts in trees, describes mother trees as dominant trees widely linked to other trees in the forest through their fungal-root connections. These trees pass their legacy on to the next generation and exert their influence in the ...more
Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

Merlin Sheldrake
Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world, we may prevent ourselves from understanding the lives of other organisms on their own terms. But are there things this stance might lead us to pass over – or forget to notice?
Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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