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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,152 ratings — published 2020
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.83 — 164,793 ratings — published 2022
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.66 — 473,501 ratings — published 2020
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,424 ratings — published 2005
Radical Mycology: A Treatise On Seeing & Working With Fungi (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.75 — 207 ratings — published
Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,403 ratings — published 2011
The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From a Hidden World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,392 ratings — published 2020
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,856 ratings — published 2015
Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,262 ratings — published 2019
In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.85 — 560 ratings — published
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.95 — 251,459 ratings — published 2014
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,424 ratings — published 2021
The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mourning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,575 ratings — published 2017
All That the Rain Promises and More: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.72 — 1,483 ratings — published 1991
Sorrowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,321 ratings — published 2021
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.52 — 881 ratings — published 1993
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.80 — 337,573 ratings — published 2014
Mushrooms Demystified (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,110 ratings — published 1979
Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.78 — 103 ratings — published 2002
Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares: The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.95 — 274 ratings — published 2010
The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.42 — 986 ratings — published 1980
The Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.48 — 4,257 ratings — published 2014
Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore (Pedia Books)
by (shelved 9 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.05 — 399 ratings — published 2019
The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.40 — 354 ratings — published 1983
Shriek: An Afterword (Ambergris, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,175 ratings — published 2006
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.50 — 673 ratings — published 1996
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.60 — 253 ratings — published 2014
City of Saints and Madmen (Ambergris, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,484 ratings — published 2002
The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.13 — 68 ratings — published 2006
Graveyard Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.08 — 57,705 ratings — published 2024
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.74 — 17,650 ratings — published 2017
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi: Exploring the Microscopic World in Our Forests, Homes, and Bodies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.96 — 451 ratings — published 2022
Fungarium (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.33 — 534 ratings — published 2020
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.27 — 87,820 ratings — published 2018
Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised: Illustrated Guide to Foraging, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms - Including new sections on growing your own incredible edibles and off-season collecting (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.19 — 315 ratings — published 2010
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,951 ratings — published 2015
The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.17 — 95 ratings — published 2010
The Fungal Pharmacy: The Complete Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms and Lichens of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.44 — 96 ratings — published 2011
The Kingdom of Fungi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.45 — 99 ratings — published 2013
The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in Folklore, Superstition and Traditional Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.96 — 453 ratings — published
The Ghost Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.90 — 9,955 ratings — published 2022
Ghost Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.48 — 6,369 ratings — published 2022
The Lives of Fungi: A Natural History of Our Planet's Decomposers (The Lives of the Natural World)
by (shelved 6 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.90 — 60 ratings — published
The Annual Migration of Clouds (The Annual Migration of Clouds, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,359 ratings — published 2021
The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,442 ratings — published 2013
The Fungus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fungi)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,219 ratings — published 1985
Finch (Ambergris, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as fungi)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,488 ratings — published 2009
“Over the course of its more than ten-thousand-year life-span," she proclaimed, "Białowieża Forest has offered shelter not only to Europe's sole surviving megafauna and the royals who legislated its exclusive use, but also to boreal owls, dwarf marsh violets, black storks, gray wolves, snakes (as we have witnessed), the world's only population of Agrilus pseudocyaneus, around two hundred types of moss, two hundred eighty-three kinds of lichens, and over eighteen hundred fungal species, of which nine hundred forty-three are classified as being at risk. Of which two hundred can be found nowhere else in Poland. I am saying that there are two hundred different kinds of fungi here in Białowieża that are, everywhere else, probably already extinct.”
― The Extinction of Irena Rey
― The Extinction of Irena Rey
“Bacteria are so small they need to stick to things or they will wash away; to attach themselves, they produce a slime, the secondary result of which is that individual soil particles are bound together. [...]
Fungal hyphae, too, travel through soil, sticking to them and binding them together, thread-like, into aggregates. [...]
The soil food web, then, in addition to providing nutrients to roots in the rhizosphere, also helps create soil structure: the activities of its members bind soil particles together even as they provide for the passage of air and water through the soil. [...]
The nets or webs fungi form around roots act as physical barriers to invasion and protect plants from pathogenic fungi and bacteria. Bacteria coat surfaces so thoroughly, there is no room for others to attach themselves. If something impacts these fungi or bacteria and their numbers drop or they disappear, the plant can easily be attacked.”
― Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
Fungal hyphae, too, travel through soil, sticking to them and binding them together, thread-like, into aggregates. [...]
The soil food web, then, in addition to providing nutrients to roots in the rhizosphere, also helps create soil structure: the activities of its members bind soil particles together even as they provide for the passage of air and water through the soil. [...]
The nets or webs fungi form around roots act as physical barriers to invasion and protect plants from pathogenic fungi and bacteria. Bacteria coat surfaces so thoroughly, there is no room for others to attach themselves. If something impacts these fungi or bacteria and their numbers drop or they disappear, the plant can easily be attacked.”
― Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
