This list is made up of popular books that communicate key public health themes:

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS Author: Elizabeth Pisani

And the Band Played On Author: Randy Shilts

Crazy Like Us Author: Ethan Watters

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History  Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby

Beating Back the Devil: On the Frontlines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service  Author: Maryn McKenna

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug  Author: Thomas Hager

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explains the Hidden Side of Everything   Authors: Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

From Enforcers to Guardians, A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence Authors: Hannah Cooper and Mindy Thompson Fullilove

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-- and How It Changed Science, Societies and the Modern World   Author: Steven Johnson

Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies   Author: Jared Diamond

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care  Author: T.R. Reid

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks  Author: Rebecca Skloot

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, the Man Who Could Cure the World  Author: Tracy Kidder

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America  Author: Barbara Ehrenreich

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals  Author: Michael Pollan

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy Author: Carol Anderson

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor  Author: Paul Farmer

Polio: An American Story  Author: David M. Oshinsky

The Secret History of the War on Cancer  Author: Devra Davis

Silent Spring  Author: Rachel Carson