by Merlin Sheldrake (2020)
When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Sheldrake provides an exhilarating journey into this hidden realm.
Peter Wohlleben
Are trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees, forester Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland. Wohlleben reveals that trees communicate through subterranean fungal networks.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together.
C.T. Ingold
Growth and nutrition - Phycomycetes - Ascomycetes - Basidiomycetes - Deuteromycetes - Habitat relations of fungi - Dispersal in fungi - Fungi as plant parasites - Fungi and human affairs___
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: the "gene," the fundamental unit of heredity, and the basic unit of all biological information. Siddhartha Mukherjee weaves science, social history, and personal narrative into an epic medical chronicle.