Midnight in Chernobyl

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (2019) by Adam Higginbotham is a history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986. It won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2020. Higginbotham spent more than a decade interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing documents from the disaster, including some that were recently declassified. Higginbotham considers it the first English-language account that is close to the truth.

Reception
According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on 10 critic reviews with 6 being "rave" and 2 being "positive" and 1 being "mixed" and 1 being "pan". In Books in the Media, a site that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.18 out of 5) from the site which was based on 6 critic reviews.

Awards and honors

 * 2019 The New York Times Ten Best Books
 * 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction