CamFest reading list for World Book Day!

For adults 

Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge. From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge by Malik Al Nasir 

Hear Malik speak at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/searching-my-slave-roots-guyanas-sugar-plantations-cambridge  

The Shape of Wonder: How Scientists Think, Work, and Live by Alan Lightman and Martin Rees 

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford 

Hear Adam at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/unwelcome-return-scientific-racism-olaudah-equiano-annual-race-justice-lecture 

The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath 

Join the Cambridge University Library’s online book club event to explore the book: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/really-popular-book-club-bell-jar-sylvia-plath 

Assembly by Natasha Brown 

Hear Natasha at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/other-worlds-travelling-through-translation  

Good Vibrations: Unlocking the Healing Powers of Music by Stefan Koelsch 

Hear Stefan at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/good-vibrations-unlocking-healing-powers-music 

Still No Miracles Needed by Mark Z Jacobson 

Hear Mark at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/still-no-miracles-needed 

Making Do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World by Susan L Carruthers 

Hear Susan at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/making-do-britons-and-refashioning-postwar-world 

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age by Frank Close 

Hear Frank at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/destroyer-worlds-prequel-and-sequel-oppenheimer 

Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong by Giles Yeo 

Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better by Professor Tim Minshall 

Hear Tim at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/making-tomorrow-how-future-will-be-manufactured 

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 

Explore the book (and new film!) at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/wuthering-heights-again  

For children 

The Bedtime Book of Impossible Questions and The Bedtime Book of EVEN MORE Impossible Questions by Isabel Thomas 

Hear Isabel at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/even-more-impossible-questions 

Where Are You Really From? By Adam Rutherford 

The Science and Secrets of Cambridge by Letizia Diamante 

Hear Letizia at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/science-and-secrets-cambridge-time-travelling-duck 

Maya’s Marvellous Medicine and Battle Robots of the Blood by Adrian Liston 

Hear Adrian at the festival: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/enchanting-tales-young-explorers 

A Year in Numbers: 365 Astonishing Maths Facts and Maths Tricks to Blow Your Mind: A Journey Through Viral Maths by Kyle D. Evans