Reddit reviews North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide To Edible And Inedible Fungi (Falconguide)
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Falcon Guides
The two you've listed are my personal favorites. I also make use of National Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, 100 Edible Mushrooms, North American Mushrooms: A Field guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi (not my favorite, but a useful cross reference at times), and Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America (this one has fantastic photos. While it is never recommended to ID by appearance alone, the cross cuts and underside photos in this book can be very useful). If you live in the southern east coast then I'd recommend Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States if you can find it affordably (as far as I know it is out of print and even used coppies are pretty expensive, but it is a fantastic book for southeastern mushrooms).
As far as websites I am a pretty frequent visitor of MushroomExpert.com. It offers some good keys and there are a lot of mushrooms listed.
mushroom MUSHROOM!
I hate it. I gave mine away. I prefer this book due to how it's organized, the photos, and the much more weather proof material.
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I've posted this elsewhere but here ya go...
> Avoid the Audubon guide. The Audubon guide is pretty terribad (bad photos, pithy descriptions, not user-friendly.)
> There are much better nationwide guides out there (like the Falcon Guide), but quite honestly you're better off with a regional guide.
> My recs for regional field guides:
> Alaska
> - Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams
> Western US
> - All The Rain Promises and More
>Midwestern US
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>Southern US
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Eastern US
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> As an aside, books like Mushrooms Demystified, Lichens of North America, Mushrooms of Northeastern North America, and Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States are too large and cumbersome to take out in the field, but are all excellent references to have at home for ID after a foray.