Recommended Books on Fungi

Note: some of these books are out of print, but may be still available from libraries, amazon.com, or ebay.com.

North America

Arora, David. Mushrooms Demystified. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 1986
Kibby, Geoffrey. An Illustrated Guide to Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Dragons' World Ltd., London, 1993
Lincoff, Gary. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, 1981
McKnight, Kent, and McKnight, Vera B., A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America, Peterson Field Guides, Houghton-Mifflen, Boston, MA, 1987
Miller, Orson and Miller, Hope. North American Mushrooms. Globe Pequot Press, Guilford, CT, 2006
Phillips, Roger. Mushrooms of North America. Little Brown and Co., Boston, 1991

Regional

Ammirati, Joseph, Trudell, Steve, Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2009
Ammirati, Joseph, Traquair, James, Horgen, Paul, Poisonous Mushrooms of the Northern United States and Canada. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1986
Arora, David, All That the Rain Promises, and More..., Ten Speed Press, Berkley, CA, 1990
Barron, George. Mushrooms of Northeast North America. Lone Pine Publishing, Renton, WA, 1999
Bessette, Alan E., Bessette, Arleen R., and Fischer, David W. Mushrooms of Northeastern North America. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 1997
Bessette, Roody, Bessette, Dunaway. Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States. Syracuse U. Press, Syracuse, NY, 2007
Bessette, Alan, Roody, William, Sturgeon, Walt, Bessette, Arleen R., Waxcap Mushrooms of Eastern North America, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY 2012
Bessette, Arleen R., Bessette, Alan, Neill, William J., Mushrooms of Cape Cod and the National Seashore, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2001
Breitenbach, J, Kränzlin, F. Fungi of Switzerland, Vol. 1-6. Mykologia, Lucerne, Switzerland, 1981-2005 (available in English, French, or German)
Davis, Michael, Sommer, Robert, Menge, John, Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2012
Evenson, Vera Stucky. Mushrooms of Colorado and the Southern Rocky Mountains. Denver Botanic Gardens and Westcliffe Publishers, Denver, CO, 1997
Horn, Bruce, Kay, Richard, Abel, Dean, A Guide to Kansas Mushrooms, University Press of Kansas, 1993
Huffman, Donald M., Tiffany, Lois H., and Knaphus, George. Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States. Iowa State University Press, Ames, Iowa, 1989
Kroeger, Paul, Kendrick, Bryce, Ceska, Oluna, Roberts, Christine, The Outer Spores: Mushrooms of Haida Gwaii, Mycologue Publications, British Columbia, Canada, 2012
McNeil, Raymond. Le Grand Livre des Champignons du Quebec et de l'est du Canada. Editions Michel Quintin, Waterloo, Quebec, Canada, 2006 (in French)
Metzler, Susan, and Metzler, Van. Texas Mushrooms: A Field Guide, 2nd Edition. University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 2013
Millman, Lawrence, Fascinating Fungi of New England. Kollath & Stensass Publishing, Duluth, MN, 2011
Mollen, Cora and Weber, Larry, Fascinating Fungi of the North Woods. Kollath & Stensaas Publishing, Duluth, MN, 2007
Roody, William C. Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians. The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2003
Russell, Bill. A Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic. Penn State Univ. Press, University Park, PA, 2006
Sicard, Matthew, Lamoureux, Yves, Les champignons sauvages du Quebec. Editions Fides, Quebec, Canada, 1999 (in French)
Smith, Alexander H., Weber, Nancy Smith. A Field Guide To Southern Mushrooms. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1985
Smith, Alexander H., Smith, Helen V., Weber, Nancy S. Weber, How to Know the Gilled Mushrooms, William. C. Brown Company Publishers, 1979
Smith, Alexander H., Smith, Helen V., How to Know the Non-Gilled Fleshy Fungi, William C. Brown Company Publishers, 1973
Stone, Maxine, Missouri?s Wild Mushrooms. Missouri Department of Conservation, 2010
Thiers, Harry, California Mushrooms, A Field Guide to the Boletes, Macmillan, New York, NY, 1975

Specialized Groups or Genera

Bessette, Alan E., Harris, David, Bessette Arleen R., Milk Mushrooms of North America: A Field Identification Guide to the Genus Lactarius, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2009
Bessette, Alan E., Bessette, Arleen R., Roody, William C., Trudell, Steven A., Tricholomas of North America, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2013
Bessette, Alan E., Roody, William C., and Bessette, Arleen R. North American Boletes: A Color Guide to the Fleshy Pored Mushroomss. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2000
Bessette, Alan E., Roody, William, Sturgeon, Walt, Bessette, Arlene, Waxcap Mushrooms of Eastern North America, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2012
Beug, Michael, Bessette, Alan, Bessette, Arleen, Ascomycete Fungi of North America, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2014
Binion, Denise E., Burdsall, Hal, Miller, Orson K., Roody, William, Stephenson, Stephen; Vasilyeva, Larissa. Macrofungi Associated with Oaks of Eastern North America. West Virginia University Press, Morgantown, WV, 2008
Both, Ernst E. The Boletes of North America: A Compendium. Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY, 1993
Coker, William Chambers and Alma Holland Beers. The Boleti of North Carolina. Dover Publications, New York, 1974
Dennis, R.W.G. British Ascomycetes. Gantner, Vaduz, Switzerland, 1977
Gilbertson, R.L., and Ryvarden, L. North American Polypores, 2 vols., Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd., 1986-87
Katsaros, Peter. Illustrated Guide to Common Slime Molds. Mad River Press, Eureka, CA, 1984
Kuo, Michael Morels. The Univ. of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 2005
Meyer, Marianne, Poulain, Miche, Bozonnet, Jean, Les Myxomycetes, (2 Volumes, in French with keys in English), Atlas, 2011
Singer, Rolf, The Agaricales in Modern Taxonomy, 4th ed., Koelth Scientific Books, 1986
Smith, Alexander H., and Thiers, Harry, The Boletes of Michigan. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1971
Smith, Alexander H., Smith, Helen V., Weber, Nancy S., How to Know the Gilled Mushrooms, (Eastern North America), Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, 1979
Smith, Alexander H., Smith, Helen V., How to Know the Non-Gilled Fleshy Fungi, (Eastern North America) Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, 1973
Snell, W. H. and Dick, E. A. The Boleti of Northeastern North America. J. Cramer, 1970
Stevenson, Steven L. and Stempen, Henry. Myxomycetes, A Handbook of Slime Molds. Timber Press, Portland, OR, 1994
Trappe, Matt, Evans, Frank, Trappe, James. Field Guide to North American Truffles. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 2007
Weber, Nancy S., A Morel Hunter?s Companion, Two Peninsula Press, Lansing, MI, 1988

Miscellaneous

Alexopoulos, Mims and Blackwell. Introductory Mycology, Fourth Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1996
Arora, David, Shepherd, Glenn, Economic Botany, Vol. 62, #3, The New York Botanical Garden Press, Bronx, NY, 2008
Benjamin, Denis. Mushrooms, Poisons and Panaceas: A handbook for naturalists, mycologists and physicians. W. H. Freeman and Co., New York, NY 1995
Benjamin, Denis, Musings of a Mushroom Hunter, A Natural History of Foraging, Tembe Publishing CO., 2010
Bessette, Alan, and Sundberg, Walter J. Mushrooms: A Quick Reference Guide to Mushrooms of North America. MacMillan Publishing Co., New York, NY, 1987
Bessette, Arleen R., Bessette, Alan, E. The Rainbow Beneath My Feet, A Mushroom Dyers Field Guide, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2001
Borrer, Donald. Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms. Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain View, CA, 1988
Carlile, Michael J.; Watkinson, Sarah C.; Gooday, Graham W. The Fungi, 2nd Edition. Academic Press, London, 2001
Cripps, Cathy L., ed. Fungi in Forest Ecosystems: Systematics, Diversity and Ecology. Volume 89, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, NYBG, New York, 2004
Dugan, Frank Matthews. Fungi in the Ancient World. APS Press, 2008
Freedman, Louise. Wild About Mushrooms. Harris, Berkeley, CA, 1987 (cookbook, online at www.mssf.org)
Glick, Phyllis, G. The Mushroom Trail Guide. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY, 1979
Hudler, George. Magical mushrooms, mischievous molds. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1998
Iizawa, Kotaro. Around the World with Mushroom Stamps. Petit Grand Publishing, Inc., 2007
Johnson, Emily. North American Mushrooms Photo Postcards. Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1988
Jordan, Peter, and Wheeler, Steven. The Ultimate Mushroom Book. Smithmark Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, 1995
Katsaros, Peter. Familiar Mushrooms, North America. The Audubon Society Pocket Guides, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, NY, 1990
Katz, Adrienne. Naturewatch. Addison-Wesley, 1986
Kendrick, Bryce. The Fifth Kingdom. Mycologue Publications, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1985
Kuo, Michael, Methven, Andrew, 100 Cool Mushrooms, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010
Laessoe, Thomas, Del Conte, Anna, and Lincoff, Gary. The Mushroom Book. DK Publishing, 1996
Laessoe, Thomas, and Lincoff, Gary. Mushrooms. DK Publishing, Inc. (Eyewitness Handbooks), New York, NY, 1998
Largent, David L. et al. How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus. Mad River Press Series, Volumes 1-6, Eureka, CA
Lincoff, Gary, The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Quarry Books, Beverly, MA, 2010
Lincoff, Gary. Simon and Schuster's Guide to Mushrooms. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1981
Lingelbach, Jenipher. Hands-On Nature. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, 1985
Lockwood, Taylor, Chasing the Rain, Self Published, 2008
Lockwood, Taylor, Treasures from the Kingdom of Fungi. Taylor Lockwood, Mt. Dora, Florida, 2001
Marley, Greg, A., Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares, Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, VT, 2010
McKenny, Margaret, Stuntz, Daniel E. and Ammirati, Joseph R. The New Savory Wild Mushroom. University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, 1987
McKnight, Kent H., and McKnight, Vera B. A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America. Peterson Field Guides, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 1987
Miller, Orson K., Miller, Hope, A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi, Pequot Press, Guilford, CT, 2006
Miller, Orson K., Miller, Hope, H., Mushrooms in Color, E.P. Dutton, NY, NY, 1981
Money, Nicholas P. Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard. Oxford Univiversity Press, New York, NY, 2004
Money, Nicholas P. The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History. Oxford Univiversity Press, New York, 2006
Moore-Landecker, Elizabeth. Fundamentals of the Fungi, Fourth Edition. Prentice Hall, New York, 1996
Morgan, Adrian. Toads and Toadstools. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 1996.
Mueller, Gregory, Bills, Gerald, Foster, Mercedes. Biodiversity of Fungi. Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA, 2004
Petersen, Jens, The Kingdom of Fungi, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2012
Rice, Miriam, and Beebee, Dorothy. Mushrooms for Color. Mad River Press, Eureka, CA, 1980
Rice, Miriam, and Beebee, Dorothy. Mushrooms for Dyes, Paper, Pigments & Myco-Stix™, Mushrooms for Color Press, Forestville, CA, 2008
Roehl, Renée, Chadwick, Kelly, Decomposition: An Anthology of Fungi-Inspired Poems, Lost Horse Press, Sandpoint, Ohio, 2012
Schaechter, Elio. In the Company of Mushrooms. Harvard University Press, Boston, MA, 1997
Sisson, Edith H. Nature With Children of All Ages. Prentice Hall Press, New York, NY, 1982
Smith, Alexander H. How to Know the Non-gilled Fleshy Fungi. William C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, IA, 1973
Smith, Alexander H., and Smith, Helen V., and Weber, Nancy S. How to Know the Gilled Fungi. Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, Dubuque, IA, 1979
Smith, Alexander H., and Weber, Nancy Smith The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1980
Shuttleworth, Floyd, S., and Zim, Herbert S. A Golden Guide, Non-Flowering Plants. Golden Press, NY, 1967
Spoerke, David G., and Rumack, Barry H., eds. Handbook of Mushroom Poisoning: Diagnosis and Treatment. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1994
Stamets, Paul, Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 1993
Stamets, Paul. Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 2005
Stephenson, Steven L. The Kingdom of Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens. Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2010
Stewart, terraBrie, The Fungus Files, An Educator?s Guide to the Fungi, K-6 (Second Edition), Friends of the Environment Foundation, Alberta National Plant Council, Nature Alberta, Canada, 2013
Ulloa, Miguel, Hanlin, Richard, Illustrated Dictionary of Mycology. APS Press, St. Paul, MN, 2000
Watling, Roy. Fungi. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003

Compiled by Sandy Sheine