📚 Fungi

Books with fungi on their catalogue record, first published between 1753 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject fungi in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,479 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Species plantarum	Carl Linnaeus	1753	48
	The biology of fungi	C. T. Ingold	1961	15
	The mushroom book	Nina L. Marshall	1901	14
	The North American cup-fungi (operculates)	Fred Jay Seaver	1928	14
	Fungi	Kevin Kavanagh	2005	11
	Entangled Life	Merlin Sheldrake	2020	11
	British fungus-flora	George Massee	1892	10
	Rust, smut, mildew & mould	M. C. Cooke	1872	9
	An introduction to industrial mycology	Smith, George	1938	9
	A manual of soil fungi	Joseph C. Gilman	1945	9
	Systematics and Evolution	David J. McLaughlin	2013	9
	Ainsworth & Bisby's dictionary of the fungi	G. C. Ainsworth	1961	8
	Collins guide to mushrooms & toadstools	Morten Lange	1963	8
	Fungi and food spoilage	John I. Pitt	1985	8
	Mushrooms	Thomas Læssøe	1998	8
	Science of survival	L. Ron Hubbard	1951	7
	Fungi	M. C. Cooke	1875	6
	The genera of fungi	Frederic E. Clements	1909	6
	Practical mycology	Sigurd Funder	1954	6
	Illustrated genera of imperfect fungi	H. L. Barnett	1955	6
	The physiology of reproduction in fungi	Lilian E. Hawker	1957	6
	The Fifth Kingdom	Bryce Kendrick	1985	6
	Fungi in bioremediation	G. M. Gadd	2001	6
	Researches on Fungi ..	A. H. Reginald Buller	1909	5
	Keys to the common fleshy fungi	Clyde Martin Christensen	1946	5
	Introductory mycology	Constantine John Alexopoulos	1952	5
	Mushrooms and other fungi	H. Kleijn	1962	5
	Non-flowering plants	Floyd S. Shuttleworth	1967	5
	British ascomycetes	R. W. G. Dennis	1968	5
	Fundamentals of the fungi	Elizabeth Moore-Landecker	1972	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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