14 Best nonfiction books like The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi by Peter McCoy

Cover of The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi by Peter McCoy

The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

By: Peter McCoy

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Discover the glorious world of mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi, as described by Peter McCoy, on…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi by Peter McCoy , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka

1. The One-Straw Revolution

By: Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more

Similar categories in Masanobu Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

Cover of They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

2. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.57

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • nonfiction
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Cover of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

3. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more

Similar categories in Mary Roach's Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • biology
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

4. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

By: Nancy Isenberg

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more

Similar categories in Nancy Isenberg's White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • nonfiction

5. The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

By: Thor Hanson

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2016 PNBA Book Award A finalist for the 2016 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in… read more

Similar categories in Thor Hanson's The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

6. Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard (Transmetropolitan, #3)

By: Warren Ellis , Darick Robertson , Rodney Ramos

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Investigative reporter Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of the 23rd Century surroundings whi… read more

Similar categories in Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard (Transmetropolitan, #3) book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

7. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

Similar categories in Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

8. The Witch Boy

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to … read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Witch Boy book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

9. Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life (Transmetropolitan, #2)

By: Warren Ellis , Darick Robertson

3.62

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem has become a household name in the future City he calls home. Th… read more

Similar categories in Warren Ellis's Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life (Transmetropolitan, #2) book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

10. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

Cover of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

11. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Cover of Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic by Emily Monosson

12. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

By: Emily Monosson

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more

Similar categories in Emily Monosson's Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

13. This Is Your Mind on Plants

By: Michael Pollan

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more

Similar categories in Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

Cover of How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

14. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Cover of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

15. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

By: Suzanne Simard

4.22

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Cover of Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

16. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cover of How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan

17. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By: Michael Pollan

4.27

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more

Similar categories in Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • nonfiction
  • science
"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Cover of Convergence (Star Wars: The High Republic) by Zoraida Córdova

18. Convergence (Star Wars: The High Republic)

By: Zoraida Córdova

3.84

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

The next adventure in the High Republic begins expanding the new era of Star Wars, with a story se… read more

Similar categories in Zoraida Córdova's Convergence (Star Wars: The High Republic) book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

"Why do people say wizard like it’s a bad thing?"

-Zoraida Córdova, Convergence (Star Wars: The High Republic)

"You're only allowed to be broken for so long before even the people you love start to wish you'd get over it."

-Zoraida Córdova, Convergence (Star Wars: The High Republic)

Cover of I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money by Madeline Pendleton

19. I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

By: Madeline Pendleton

4.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her j… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Pendleton's I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • nonfiction
"Don't listen if anyone ever tells you it's a dog-eat-dog world. Dogs are pack animals. We're stronger together."

-Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

Cover of The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World by Aliya Whiteley

20. The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World

By: Aliya Whiteley

3.60

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Aliya Whiteley has always been in love with the wondrous and bizarre world of fungi - from a childh… read more

Similar categories in Aliya Whiteley's The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"This particular orchid gets all its energy from fungi, sometimes from different kinds of fungi simultaneously. It never even begins to turn to the sun. No photosynthesis here. It relies utterly on it…"

-Aliya Whiteley, The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries From A Hidden World

Cover of The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi by Peter McCoy

21. The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

By: Peter McCoy

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Discover the glorious world of mushrooms, lichens, and micro fungi, as described by Peter McCoy, on… read more

Similar categories in Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi book and Peter McCoy's The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi

  • biology
  • gardening
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

11 Top science books like The Mycocultural Revolution: Tranforming Our World With Mushrooms, Lichens, and Other Fungi by Peter McCoy

Transform Your Habits

The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Mary Roach

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Emily Monosson

3.87

View all the books

13 Best audiobook books like Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

Transform Your Habits

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

4.20

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.