# Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Readers recommend it as a gentle, fresh introduction to fungi, with the author's narration praised. Critics note the author isn't a research mycologist and call the evidence thin.

## What people warn about

- Author not a research mycologist (1 comments): "is okay as a popular science book, but Sheldrake isn't really a practicing research mycologist" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163069))
- Thin evidence base, pop-science feel (1 comments): "it's pop-science bullshit, and it's based on feelgood extrapolation from a thin evidence base" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017674))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter](https://hackerapproved.com/p/g-del-escher-bach.md): 47 recommend
- [Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman](https://hackerapproved.com/p/thinking-fast-and-slow.md): 17 recommend
- [Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows](https://hackerapproved.com/p/thinking-in-systems.md): 17 recommend
- [The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins](https://hackerapproved.com/p/selfish-gene.md): 14 recommend
- [Cosmos by Carl Sagan](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cosmos.md): 13 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/052551032X?tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/130825/9780525510321) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake", https://hackerapproved.com/p/entangled-life/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).