Book List
You can do just fine using Mushroom Expert https://www.mushroomexpert.com as an online guide. Do yourself a favor and get Catherine (Kit) Scates Easy Guide to Mushroom Descriptions and Easy Key To Common Gilled Mushrooms. Easy visual reference you will use a lot to identify your mushrooms. https://fungi.com/products/easy-mushroom-identification-charts
I use them AND I also like having books for reference. This is my list of mushroom books. A few are new, many are old. A few are real old and you will have to look a little harder for them.
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Introductory Mycology |
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| C. J. Alexopoulos, C. W. Mims, M. Blackwell |  |
| I have Fourth Edition, Copyright 1996. Look for used. | |
Ainsworth & Bisbys Dictionary of the Fungi 10th Edition |
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| P. M. Kirk, P. F. Cannon, D. W. Minter and J. A. Stalpers | |
| Not light reading. | |
Illustrated Dictionary of Mycology Second Edition |
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| Miguel Ulloa and Richard T. Hanlin | |
| Wonderful book with lot of information and incredible pictures. | |
Mushrooms Demystified Second Edition |
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| David Arora | |
| This is the one book to buy if you only buy one. | |
Easy Guide to Mushrooms Descriptions |
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| Kit Scates | |
| Buy here: https://fungi.com/products/easy-mushroom-identification-charts You need this. | |
Easy Key to Common Gilled Mushrooms |
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| Kit Scates | |
| Buy here: https://fungi.com/products/easy-mushroom-identification-charts You need this. | |
Fungal Families of the World |
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| P. F. Cannon and P. M. Kirk | |
How to Know the Non-Gilled Fleshy Fungi |
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| Helen V. Smith Alexander H. Smith | |
How to Know the gilled mushrooms |
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| Alexander H. Smith Helen V. Smith Nancy S. Weber | |
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms |
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| Gary H. Lincoff | |
How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus I: Macroscopic Features |
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| David L. Largent | |
How to Identify Mushrooms to Genus III: Microscopic Features |
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| David Largent David Johnson Roy Watling (Consultant) | |
Identification of the Larger Fungi Kindle Edition |
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| Roy Watling | |
| Be careful with this one if you attempt to get the paper version. The Kindle version text is good, but detail of the images is lacking. I tried to get the exact paper version and ran across some sort of duplicate ISBN number issue. | |
North American Mushrooms A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi |
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| Dr. Orson K. Miller Jr. and Hope H. Miller | |
Mushrooms of the Southeast |
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| Todd F. Elliott and Steven L. Stephenson | |
Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States A Field Guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida |
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| Alan E. Bessette Arleen R. Bessette David P. Lewis | |
Mushrooms How to Identify and Gather Wild Mushrooms and Other Fungi |
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| DK? Thomas Lessoe? | |
Mushrooms of the Midwest |
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| Michael Kuo and Andrew S. Methven | |
| Michael Kuo of The Mushroom Expert website | |
North American Boletes A Color Guide to the Fleshy Pored Mushrooms |
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| Alan E. Bessette, William C. Roody, and Arleen R. Bessette | |
The Beginners' Guide to Mushrooms |
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| Britt A. Bunyard & Tavis Lynch | |
The Lives of Fungi A Natural History of Our Planet's Decomposers |
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| Britt A. Bunyard | |
An Introductory To The Taxonomy And Nomenclature Of Fungi |
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| G. R. Bisby, M.A., Ph.D. | |
| Copyright 1945, may be hard to come by. Dictionary of the Fungi is known as Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary Of The Fungi. That Bisby. | |
Edible Wild Mushroom Foraging and Identification Presented by the Alabama Mushroom Society |
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| Anthoni Goodman PhD | |
| Buy Here: https://alabamamushroomsociety.org/recommended-books | |
Healing Mushrooms A Practical Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms |
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| Richard Bray | |
Studying the DISCOMYCETES from initiation to advance levels |
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| René Dougoud with collaboration of Jean-Paul Priou & Nicolas Van Vooren | |
Methuen Handbook of Colour |
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| Eyre Methuen | |
| You either go all in on colors or you don't. Do you need this book? NO. But before you had color pickers with millions of colors, this is what people worked with. My copy is copyright 1981. | |
A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms |
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| Nancy Smith Weber and Alexander H. Smith | |
The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide |
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| Alexander H. Smith and Nancy Smith Weber | |
Biodiversity of FUNGI Inventory and Monitoring Methods |
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| edited by: Gregory M. Mueller, Gerald F. Bills and Mercedes S. Foster | |
AGARICUS of NORTH AMERICA |
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| Richard W. Kerrigan | |
how to know the lichens |
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| Mason E. Hale | |
| Another older book, copyright 1979 | |
The Fungal Pharmacy |
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| Robert Rogers | |
A Mushroom Word Guide |
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| Robert M Hallock, PhD | |
The Complete Mushroom Hunter |
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| Gary Lincoff | |
Mushrooms Of Mississippi and Other Fungi and Protists |
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| George H. Dukes Jr. | |
Molecular Markers in Mycology |
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| Bhim Pratap and Singh Vijai Kumar Gupta Editors | |