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NAMA Book Reviews

Our reviews provide a useful tool for deciding which of the most recently published mycological related books would be useful for your skill level and interests, and which would be the most valuable for your library. We often provide a link to the publisher’s website.

NAMA’s Editorial and Literature Committee is responsible for providing reviews of books, DVDs and other electronic media, software programs, and smartphone apps for the society’s newsletter, The Mycophile. A selection of previously published reviews is available below.

Publishers and authors desiring to have their works reviewed, NAMA members with suggestions for reviews, and NAMA members wishing to do a review should contact Barbara Ching by email, to make the necessary arrangements.

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The Genius Plague book cover

The Genius Plague

This science fiction thriller has a mushroom mycelium as the villain. Its spores induce a lung infection, and ...
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Mushrooms of the Georgia Piedmont & Southern Appalachians book cover

Mushrooms of the Georgia Piedmont and Southern Appalachians: A Reference

Although the Preface states that This book is intended to be a field-durable guide to the wild mushrooms ...
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Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada book cover

Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada

In 2006, Timber Press initiated a series of field guides for the Pacific Northwest with the publication of ...
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Boletes of Eastern North America book cover

Boletes of Eastern North America

Boletes of Eastern North America (BENA) is basically a re-do of North American Boletes: A Color Guide to the Fleshy ...
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The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat book cover

The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat

And the new regional mushroom guides keep coming. This attractive new guide to the mushrooms of the Rocky ...
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Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks Boulde, Colorado book cvoer

Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks (Boulder, Colorado)

This focused field guide, which was produced in Boulder, Colorado, deals with the lichens that occur in a ...
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Fungi A Very Short Introduction book cvoer

Fungi: A Very Short Introduction

I was introduced to fungi at UC Davis, more decades ago than I care to admit, by Dr. ...
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Mycelial Mayhem Growing Mushrooms for Fun, Profit, and Companion Planting book cover

Mycelial Mayhem: Growing Mushrooms for Fun, Profit and Companion Planting

Mushrooms, wild and otherwise, continue to increase in popularity, whether it be foraging for wild species (while being ...
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Polypores of British Columbia Fungi Basidiomycota book cover

Polypores of British Columbia (Fungi: Basidiomycota)

Few polypores generate great interest among most mushroom hunters and so they usually are rather poorly represented in ...
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The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms book cover

The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms

And yet another guide for growing mushrooms at home — this time focused on a single species, Psilocybe ...
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Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming book cover

Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region: Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming

When the review copy of this new Timber Press release arrived, I was surprised to see a very ...
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Ascomycete Fungi of North America A Mushroom Reference Guide book cover

Ascomycete Fungi of North America: A Mushroom Reference Guide

North America has a long tradition of producing excellently illustrated manuals on larger fungi and there is a ...
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The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lions Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home book cover

The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion’s Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home

Anyone can grow mushrooms at home. The proof is that I did it and if I can do ...
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Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms book cover

Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms

This is a small (roughly 4.5 x 6 inches) guide that, as the title states, deals with mushrooms ...
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The Wild Mushroom Cookbook Recipes From Mendocino book cover

The Wild Mushroom Cookbook: Recipes from Mendocino

Food52 founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs launched their now-renowned website based on the notion of “genius” recipes—recipes ...
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