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.

  • All
  • Children
  • Cookbook
  • Field Guides
  • General
  • Misc
  • Reference
  • Resource
Boletes of Eastern North America book cover
Alan E. Bessette

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 ...
Read More →
The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat book cover
Cathy L. Cripps

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 ...
Read More →
Field Guide to the Lichens of White Rocks Boulde, Colorado book cvoer
Erin Tripp

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 ...
Read More →
Fungi A Very Short Introduction book cvoer
General

Fungi: A Very Short Introduction

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

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 ...
Read More →
Polypores of British Columbia Fungi Basidiomycota book cover
Crown Publications

Polypores of British Columbia (Fungi: Basidiomycota)

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

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 ...
Read More →
Mushrooms of the Rocky Mountain Region Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming book cover
Denver Botanic Gardens

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 ...
Read More →
Ascomycete Fungi of North America A Mushroom Reference Guide book cover
Alan E. Bessette

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 ...
Read More →
The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lions Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home book cover
Misc

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 ...
Read More →
Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms book cover
Adventure Publications

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 ...
Read More →
The Wild Mushroom Cookbook Recipes From Mendocino book cover
Alison Gardner

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 ...
Read More →
The Kingdom of Fungi book cover
General

The Kingdom of Fungi

Editor’s note: NAMA received two review copies of this book, so it seemed appropriate for us to prepare ...
Read More →
Mushroom A Global History book cover
Cynthia Bertelsen

Mushroom: A Global History

The author begins her acknowledgments (p. 151) with: Mushrooms remain a complex and mysterious subject even now, after ...
Read More →
Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and the Midwestern States A Resource Handbook book cover
Resource

Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and the Midwestern States: A Resource Handbook

This small handbook from OSU Extension represents another in the growing lineup of state or narrow regional mushroom ...
Read More →
Scroll to Top
Skip to content