Recommended public health books

Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice (2e)
Pencheon D, Guest C, Melzer D and Gray JAM
ISBN: 0198566557
Very useful short, pragmatic chapters on a wide variety of public health topics.  I've got the first edition, but assume this second edition is as good if not better

Donaldson's Essential Public Health (3e)
Donaldson LJ & Scally G.
ISBN 1846192099
This is the new edition of this classic textbook, which has very readable, in-depth chapters about lots of useful topics including fertility rates, mental health, care of the elderly and environmental health

Lecture Notes on Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine (5e)
Farmer, R and Lawrenson R.
ISBN: 1405106743
Okay, so maybe quite a lot of it is basic, but the chapter on health targets gives very concise summaries of the epidemiology of major diseases over time

Oxford Textbook of Public Health (4e)
Detels R et al.
ISBN: 0198509596
For my money slightly erratic, but still useful for reference. The chapters are very detailed, perhaps a bit too detailed - I found it often took too long to distil outrelevant material - but the contributors are usually leaders in their field.  I didn't use this as much as I thought I might, but it does look good on your shelf!  Note a new edition is now available, too

Mastering Public Health
Lewis G, Sheringham J, Kalim K and Crayford T
ISBN 9781853157813
Is this the answer to your Part A prayers?  Possibly... read my review here.

Essential Medical Statistics (2e)
Kirkwood BR and Sterne JAC
ISBN: 0865428719
Very approachable, although later chapters are probably too in-depth for the MFPH

Sociology as Applied to Medicine (6e).
Scambler G.
ISBN: 0702029017
Not all relevant to everyday practice or the MFPH exams, but useful introduction to concepts such as the sick role and deviance

Understanding Organizations (4e).
Handy, C.
ISBN: 0140156038 
Perhaps not as good as some evangelists make out, but a useful reference for looking up specific terms, and surprisingly cheap by 'textbook' standards. I found the chapters on power particularly helpful

Communicable Disease Control Handbook (2e).
Hawker J, Begg N, Blair I, Reintjes R and Weinberg J
ISBN: 1405124245
Excellent summaries of all the diseases you could ever want (so to speak!) - good for public health on-calls

Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness.
Thaler R and Sunstein C
ISBN: 0141040017 
A simple concept eloquently (if slightly lengthily) explained - basically, make the default option the healthy one.

The End of Oil: The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the Rise of a New Energy Order
Roberts, P.
ISBN: 0747570817 
Very interesting and balanced book about how much oil is left in the world, when it may run out, and how a new energy economy (such as a hydrogen economy) may work.