These are the books I use regularly and find particularly useful. They also serve as the references for many of my guides, particularly the WHO classification of tumors series.
Great General Resources for Residents
The Practice of Surgical Pathology: A Beginner’s Guide to the Diagnostic Process (2nd ed. 2018) by Diana Weedman Molavi
Quick Reference Handbook for Surgical Pathologists (2nd ed. 2019) by Natasha Rekhtman MD PhD, Marina K Baine MD PhD, Justin A. Bishop MD
Histology for Pathologists (5th Edition, 2019) by Stacey Mills
Manual of Surgical Pathology (3rd Edition, 2011) by Susan C. Lester MD PhD
Gastrointestinal
Digestive System Tumours: WHO Classification of Tumours (5th Edition, 2019)
Atlas of Gastrointestinal Pathology: A Pattern Based Approach to Non-Neoplastic Biopsies (First Edition, 2014) by Christina Arnold M.D. , Dora Lam-Himlin M.D., Elizabeth A. Montgomery MD
Atlas of Gastrointestinal Pathology: A Pattern Based Approach to Neoplastic Biopsies (First Edition, 2019)
by Christina Arnold M.D., Dora Lam-Himlin M.D., Elizabeth A. Montgomery MD
Atlas of Liver Pathology: A Pattern-Based Approach (1st Edition, 2019) by Michael Torbenson MD
Scheuer’s Liver Biopsy Interpretation (10th Edition, 2020) by Jay H. Lefkowitch MD
Biopsy Interpretation of the Gastrointestinal Tract Mucosa: Volume 1: Non-Neoplastic (Biopsy Interpretation Series) (3rd Edition, 2017) by Elizabeth A. Montgomery MD , Lysandra Voltaggio MD
Biopsy Interpretation of the Gastrointestinal Tract Mucosa: Volume 2: Neoplastic (Biopsy Interpretation Series) (3rd Edition, 2017) by Elizabeth A. Montgomery MD, Lysandra Voltaggio MD
Odze and Goldblum Surgical Pathology of the GI Tract, Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas (3rd Edition, 2014)
by Robert D. Odze MD, John R. Goldblum MD
Diagnostic Pathology: Gastrointestinal (2nd Edition, 2015) by Joel K Greenson MD
Soft Tissue/Bone
Soft Tissue and Bone Tumours: WHO Classification of Tumours (5th Edition, 2020)
Dorfman and Czerniak’s Bone Tumors (2nd Edition, 2015) by Bogdan Czerniak MD PhD
Enzinger and Weiss’s Soft Tissue Tumors (7th Edition, 2019) by John R. Goldblum MD, Sharon W. Weiss MD, Andrew L. Folpe MD
Practical Soft Tissue Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach: A Volume in the Pattern Recognition Series (2nd Edition, 2018) by Jason L. Hornick MD PhD
Lung/Thorax
WHO Classification of Tumours of the Lung, Pleura, Thymus and Heart (4th Edition, 2015)
Practical Pulmonary Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach: A Volume in the Pattern Recognition Series (3rd Edition, 2017) by Kevin O. Leslie MD, Mark R. Wick MD
Practical Thoracic Pathology: Diseases of the Lung, Heart, and Thymus (First Edition, 2016) by Allen P. Burke MD, Marie-Christine Aubry MD, Joseph Maleszewski MD, Borislav Alexiev MD, Fabio Tavora MD
Gynecologic
Female Genital Tumours: WHO Classification of Tumours (5th Edition, 2020)
Blaustein’s Pathology of the Female Genital Tract (7th ed. 2019) by Robert J. Kurman, Lora Hedrick Ellenson, Brigitte M. Ronnett
Diagnostic Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology (3rd Edition, 2017) by Christopher P. Crum MD et al.
Diagnostic Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology: An Atlas and Text (1st Edition, 2011) by Roger A. Reichert MD PhD
Genitourinary
WHO Classification of Tumours of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs (4th Edition, 2016)
Biopsy Interpretation of the Prostate (Biopsy Interpretation Series) (6th Edition, 2020) by Jonathan I. Epstein
Biopsy Interpretation of the Bladder (Biopsy Interpretation Series) (Third Edition, 2016) by Jonathan Epstein MD, Victor Reuter MD, Mahul B. Amin
Urologic Surgical Pathology (4th Edition, 2019) by Liang Cheng MD, Greg T MacLennan MD, David G. Bostwick MD
Diagnostic Pathology: Genitourinary (2nd Edition, 2016) by Mahul B. Amin MD, Satish K. Tickoo MD
Head and Neck
WHO Classification of Head and Neck Tumours (4th Edition, 2017)
WHO Classification of Tumours of Endocrine Organs (4th Edition, 2017)
Diagnostic Pathology: Head and Neck (2nd Edition, 2016) by Lester D. R. Thompson MD, Bruce M. Wenig MD
Atlas of Head and Neck Pathology (Atlas of Surgical Pathology) (3rd Edition, 2015) by Bruce M. Wenig MD
Breast
Breast Tumours: WHO Classification of Tumours (5th Edition, 2019)
Biopsy Interpretation of the Breast (Biopsy Interpretation Series) (3rd Edition, 2017) by Stuart J. Schnitt MD, Laura C. Collins MD
Cytology
Cytology: Diagnostic Principles and Clinical Correlates (5th Edition, 2017) by Edmund S. Cibas MD, Barbara S. Ducatman MD
Atlas of Cytopathology: A Pattern Based Approach (1st Edition, 2019) by Christopher J VandenBussche MD PhD, Erika F. Rodriguez MD PhD, Derek B. Allison MD, M. Lisa Zhang MD
The Book of Cells: A Breviary of Cytopathology (2016) by Richard Mac DeMay
The Milan System for Reporting Salivary Gland Cytopathology (1st ed. 2018 Edition) by William C. Faquin, Esther Diana Rossi, Zubair Baloch
The Bethesda System for Reporting Cervical Cytology: Definitions, Criteria, and Explanatory Notes (3rd ed., 2015) by Ritu Nayar, David C. Wilbur
The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology: Definitions, Criteria, and Explanatory Notes (2nd ed., 2018) by Syed Z. Ali, Edmund S. Cibas
Immunohistochemistry
Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry: Theranostic and Genomic Applications (5th Edition, 2015) by David J Dabbs MD
Molecular
Diagnostic Pathology: Molecular Oncology (2nd Edition, 2019) by Mohammad A. Vasef MD, Aaron Auerbach MD MPH
Infectious Diseases
Diagnostic Pathology: Infectious Diseases (2nd Edition, 2019) by Danny A Milner MD MSc
