There are countless Mushrooms courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms (2016)
- Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms (2000)
- National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms (National Audubon Society Field Guides) (1981)
- The 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 (2017)
- Mushrooms Demystified (1986)
- Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide (1996)
- Healing Mushrooms: A Practical and Culinary Guide to Using Mushrooms for Whole Body Health (2017)
- The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion’s Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home (2014)
- Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms (Mushroom Guides) (2014)
- Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation (2014)
- Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (2005)
- Mushrooms of the Northeast: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms (Mushroom Guides) (2016)
The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing and Using Magic Mushrooms (2016)
The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible details every step of the complex mushroom cultivation process, making it hands down the largest and most comprehensive book ever written on the subject.Readers will learn how to produce their own magic mushrooms quickly, safely, and effectively.
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms (2000)
After years of living in awe of the mysterious fungi known as mushrooms-chefs, health enthusiasts, and home cooks alike can’t get enough of these rich, delicate morsels.
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms (National Audubon Society Field Guides) (1981)
Featuring a durable vinyl binding and over 700 full-color identification photographs organized visually by color and shape, the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms is the perfect companion for any mushroom hunting expedition.
The 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 (2017)
Gathering edible wild food is a wonderful way to . Mushrooms are the ; they grow literally everywhere, from mountains and woodlands to urban and suburban parks to your own backyard. The Complete Mushroom Hunter, Revised will enrich your understanding of the natural world and build an appreciation for an ancient, critically relevant, and useful body of knowledge.
Mushrooms Demystified (1986)
Simply the best and most complete mushroom field guide and reference book, MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED includes descriptions and keys to more than 2,000 species of mushrooms, with more than 950 photographs. Mushroom authority David Arora provides a beginner’s checklist of the 70 most distinctive and common mushrooms, plus detailed chapters on terminology, classification, habitats, mushroom cookery, mushroom toxins, and the meanings of scientific mushroom names.
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide (1996)
From the author of GROWING GOURMET AND MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS comes the only identification guide exclusively devoted to the world’s psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Detailed descriptions and color photographs for over 100 species are provided, as well as an exploration of their long-standing (and often religious) use by ancient peoples and their continued significance to modern-day culture.
Healing Mushrooms: A Practical and Culinary Guide to Using Mushrooms for Whole Body Health (2017)
Adaptogenic mushrooms are one of today’s buzziest superfoods, known for their ability to restore skin’s youthful glow, increase energy levels, reduce brain fog, keep your hormone levels in check, and so much more.
The Essential Guide to Cultivating Mushrooms: Simple and Advanced Techniques for Growing Shiitake, Oyster, Lion’s Mane, and Maitake Mushrooms at Home (2014)
From the basics of using mushroom kits to working with grain spawn, liquid cultures, and fruiting chambers, Stephen Russell covers everything you need to know to produce mouthwatering shiitakes, oysters, lion’s manes, maitakes, and portobellos. Whether you’re interested in growing them for your own kitchen or to sell at a local market, you’ll soon be harvesting a delicious and abundant crop of mushrooms.
Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms (Mushroom Guides) (2014)
Hundreds of full-color photos with easy-to-understand text make this a great visual guide to learning about nearly 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Upper Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation: Simple to Advanced and Experimental Techniques for Indoor and Outdoor Cultivation (2014)
What would it take to grow mushrooms in space? How can mushroom cultivation help us manage, or at least make use of, invasive species such as kudzu and water hyacinth and thereby reduce dependence on herbicides? Is it possible to develop a low-cost and easy-to-implement mushroom-growing kit that would provide high-quality edible protein and bioremediation in the wake of a natural disaster?
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (2005)
Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet.
Mushrooms of the Northeast: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms (Mushroom Guides) (2016)
Hundreds of full-color photos with easy-to-understand text make this a great visual guide to learning about more than 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Northeast. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms) are organized by shape, then by color, so you can identify them by their visual characteristics.
Best Mushrooms Books: The Ultimate List
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some mushrooms books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians
Author(s): William C. Roody
ID: 3435003, Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, Year: 2025, Size: 99 Mb, Format: epub
Mushrooms: Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
Author(s): Deepu Pandita, Anu Pandita
ID: 3624789, Publisher: CRC Press, Year: 2023, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
Therapeutic Mushrooms for Diabetes Mellitus: Current Evidences and Future Scope
Author(s): Uzma Azeem, Khalid Rehman Hakeem
ID: 3704775, Publisher: CRC Press/Apple Academic Press, Year: 2023, Size: 32 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are absolutely best-sellers according to Los Angeles Times, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.