11 must-read nonfiction books like The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens by Steven L. Stephenson

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The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens

By: Steven L. Stephenson

4.15

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The ubiquitous fungi are little known and vastly underappreciated. Yet, without them we wouldn’t ha…

"One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future."

-Steven L. Stephenson, The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens

"One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future."

-Steven L. Stephenson, The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens by Steven L. Stephenson , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps, #11) by R.L. Stine

1. The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps, #11)

By: R.L. Stine

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

FACE TO FACE WITH A NIGHTMARE... How ugly is Carly Beth's Halloween mask? It's so ugly that it a… read more

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2. Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)

By: Margaret Weis , Tracy Hickman

4.01

Format: 444 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This Dungeons & Dragons-inspired fantasy adventure is the first installment in the beloved Dragonla… read more

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"There comes a time, Laurana, when you've got to risk your life for something you believe in -- something that means more than life itself."

-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)

"And my eyes! I see through hourglass pupils and therefore I see time-as it affects all things. Even as I look at you now, Tanis," the mage whispered, "I see you dying, slowly, by inches. And so I see…"

-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)

"Tas had been teasing Flint unmercifully all morning, calling him "Seamaster" and "Shipmate" asking him the price of fish, and how much he would charge to Ferry them back across the lake. Flint finall…"

-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)

"He remembered a dog—the only living thing they found in the entire village—curled around the body of a dead child. Caramon stopped to pet the small dog. The animal cringed, then licked the big man’s …"

-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1)

3. The Elvenbane (Halfblood Chronicles, #1)

By: Mercedes Lackey , Andre Norton

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale … read more

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4. Night of the Living Dummy (Goosebumps, #7)

By: R.L. Stine

3.80

Format: 25 pages,

When twins Lindy and Kris find a ventriloquist's dummy in a Dumpster, Lindy decides to "rescue" it,… read more

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5. Let's Get Invisible! (Goosebumps, #6)

By: R.L. Stine

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

On Max's birthday, he finds a kind of magic mirror in the attic. It can make make him become invisi… read more

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6. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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7. Saturn Rukh

By: Robert L. Forward

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the near future five intrepid men and women have been paid a billion dollars each to risk the fi… read more

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8. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

9. Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)

By: Anne Rice

4.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal li… read more

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10. Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2)

By: Margaret Weis , Tracy Hickman

4.14

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

With the return of the dragon minions of Takhisis, the Queen of Dragons, the land of Krynn has beco… read more

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"Why insult the door's purpose by locking it?" is a favorite kender expression."

-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2)

"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater."

-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2)

"Raistlin lay on the floor, his skin white, his breathing shallow. Blood trickled from his mouth. Kneeling down, Caramon lifted him in his arms. "Raistlin?" he whispered. "What happened?" "That's what…"

-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2)

"How do you know they're magic and not some mechanical device of the dwarves?" Tanis asked, sensing that Tas was hiding something. Tas gulped. He had been hoping Tanis wouldn't ask him that question. …"

-Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2)

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11. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

By: T. Kingfisher

3.89

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more

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"You shouldn't joke about fairies."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."

-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)

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12. Lapvona

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.53

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more

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"But such was death - it had nothing to say."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

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13. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.35

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more

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  • natural history
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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14. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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16. The Beauty of Everyday Things

By: Soetsu Yanagi

3.52

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace sett… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Disreputable and heinous acts are often carried out in the name of the nation. Nations do not always abide by the truth; instead truth is manipulated and distorted."

-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things

"These days, personal taste has suffered a decline. Colours have become garish, forms flimsy, and designs hideous. It is only natural that surrounded by such objects, our sense of beauty should be dul…"

-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things

"Under the snow's reflected light creeping into the houses, beneath the dim lamplight, various types of manual work is taken up. This is how time is forgotten; this is how work absorbs the hours and d…"

-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things

"What is the proper way of seeing? In brief, it is to see things as they are. However, very few people possess this purity of sight. That is, such people are not seeing things as they are, but are inf…"

-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things

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17. Outside

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With three million copies of his books sold worldwide, "world-class crime writer"( The Sunday Times… read more

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18. The Novelist

By: Jordan Castro

3.41

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Brisk and shockingly witty, exuberantly scatological as well as deeply wise, The Novelist is a deli… read more

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19. 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

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  • biology
  • natural history
  • 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

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20. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 29 Wild, Edible Mushrooms by Frank Hyman

21. How to Forage for Mushrooms without Dying: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Identifying 29 Wild, Edible Mushrooms

By: Frank Hyman

4.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

With the surging interest in foraging for mushrooms, those new to the art need a reliable guide to … read more

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  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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22. Killer

By: Peter Tonkin

3.49

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Book by Tonkin, Peter read more

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Cover of The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened by Bill McKibben

23. The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

By: Bill McKibben

4.19

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben―award-winning author, activist, educat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans by Deborah Rowan Wright

24. Future Sea: How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans

By: Deborah Rowan Wright

4.07

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

The world’s oceans face multiple threats: the effects of climate change, pollution, overfishing, pl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens by Steven L. Stephenson

25. The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens

By: Steven L. Stephenson

4.15

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The ubiquitous fungi are little known and vastly underappreciated. Yet, without them we wouldn’t ha… read more

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  • biology
  • natural history
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future."

-Steven L. Stephenson, The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens

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26. The Jupiter Effect: The Planets as Triggers of Devastating Earthquakes

By: John Gribbin

2.75

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

The planets as triggers of devastating earthquakes. read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

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4.35

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3.60

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4.58

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4.07

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Steve Brusatte

4.20

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4.35

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Bill Gates

4.13

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4.18

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