📚 Mushrooms

Fungi in full: identification, edibility and poison, and the hidden mycelium doing the real work under the leaf litter.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject mushrooms in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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
	The mushroom book	Nina L. Marshall	1901	14
	The North American cup-fungi (operculates)	Fred Jay Seaver	1928	14
	Mushroom: how to grow them	William Falconer	1891	13
	The sacred mushroom and the cross	John Marco Allegro	1970	13
	Our edible toadstools and mushrooms and how to distinguish them	W. Hamilton Gibson	1895	11
	Edible fungi	John Ramsbottom	1943	9
	A treatise on the esculent funguses of England	Charles David Badham	1847	8
	Collins guide to mushrooms & toadstools	Morten Lange	1963	8
	Mushrooms	Thomas Læssøe	1998	8
	Studies of American fungi	George Francis Atkinson	1900	7
	Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous	Charles McIlvaine	1900	7
	The savory wild mushroom	Margaret McKenny	1962	6
	The wondrous mushroom	R. Gordon Wasson	1980	6
	The Fifth Kingdom	Bryce Kendrick	1985	6
	Keys to the common fleshy fungi	Clyde Martin Christensen	1946	5
	The mushroom hunter's field guide	Alexander Hanchett Smith	1958	5
	Mushrooms and other fungi	H. Kleijn	1962	5
	Non-flowering plants	Floyd S. Shuttleworth	1967	5
	Psilocybin Mushroom Handbook	L. G. Nicholas	2004	5
	The complete mushroom hunter	Gary Lincoff	2010	5
	Mycelial mayhem	David Sewak	2015	5
	The mushroom handbook	L. C. C. Krieger	1935	4
	Common edible mushrooms	Clyde Martin Christensen	1943	4
	Mushrooms and other fungi	Albert Pilát	1961	4
	Mushrooms demystified	David Arora	1979	4
	Joe's Book of Mushroom Cookery	Jack Czarnecki	1986	4
	Medicinal Mushrooms	Christopher Hobbs	1995	4
	The mushroom book	Thomas Læssøe	1996	4
	Mushrooms	Patrick Harding	2004	4
	The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible	Dr. K Mandrake PhD	2016	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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