8 must-read natural history books like In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms by Doug Bierend

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In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms

By: Doug Bierend

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Fungi are fundamental to life. As decomposers, they are critical to the formation and sustenance of…

If you liked the natural history plot in In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms by Doug Bierend , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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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

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  • nature
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • 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

2. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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3. Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

By: Michael Pollan

3.73

Format: 192 pages,

In his articles and in bestselling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has establish… read more

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4. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more

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  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

5. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness Peter Godfrey-Smith is … read more

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6. 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

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7. 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

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  • science
  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

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8. 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

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  • science
  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • plants
  • nature
  • audiobook
"[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

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9. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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10. In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms

By: Doug Bierend

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Fungi are fundamental to life. As decomposers, they are critical to the formation and sustenance of… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • plants
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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11. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us."

-Jennifer Ackerman, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

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12. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

By: Michael Greger

4.29

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Uncover the evidence-based science to slowing the effects of aging, from the New York Times bestsel… read more

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  • science
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. My Father's Brain: Life in the Shadow of Alzheimer's

By: Sandeep Jauhar

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Blending the humor, compassion, and absorbing family drama of first-rate memoir with expert scienc… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. 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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  • science
  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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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16. Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature

By: M. Amos Clifford

3.65

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

Forest bathing is a gentle, meditative practice of connecting with nature. Simply being present wit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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17. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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18. Tales from the Ant World

By: Edward O. Wilson

4.08

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of … read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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19. Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet

By: Paul Stamets

4.42

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Companion to the film Fantastic Fungi. Contributions from Michael Pollan, Andrew Weil, Eugenia Bone… read more

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  • biology
  • natural history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman

20. The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction

By: Neil Gaiman

4.47

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

An outstanding array—52 pieces in all—of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New Y… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence

By: John C. Ryan

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Explorations of plant consciousness and human interactions with the natural world. From apples to a… read more

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  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

14 Best audiobook books like In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms by Doug Bierend

Transform Your Habits

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Transform Your Habits

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

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Transform Your Habits

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

4.13

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11 Top fiction books like The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction by Neil Gaiman

Transform Your Habits

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories

Elmore Leonard

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Everything but the Squeal

John Scalzi

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Barbara Hambly , Stephen King , John Joseph Adams , Stephen Baxter , Anne Perry , Neil Gaiman , Geoffrey A. Landis , H. Paul Jeffers , Tanith Lee , Laurie R. King , Michael Moorcock , Chris Roberson , Robert J. Sawyer , Naomi Novik , Tim Lebbon , Mary Robinette Kowal , Sharyn McCrumb , Peter Tremayne , Darrell Schweitzer , Anthony Burgess , Barbara Roden , Dominic Green , Bradley H. Sinor , Rob Rogers , Vonda N. McIntyre , Tony Pi , Mark Valentine , Edward D. Hoch , Amy Myers

3.81

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