Cover of Challenger

Challenger

A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

by Adam Higginbotham

Publication: First published 2024
ISBNs: 9781982176617, 9781982176631, 9781982176624

NBCC Nonfiction 2024 (awarded 2025) · Winner Kirkus Nonfiction 2024 · Winner

Sign in to put this book on your shelf.

Prize history

National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
2024 · awarded 2025

Winner
Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
2024

Winner

Year-end lists

The New Yorker, best books of 2024

National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction 2024 finalists

Relinquished

Gretchen Sisson
The Achilles Trap

Steve Coll
The Freaks Came Out to Write

Tricia Romano
We’re Alone

Edwidge Danticat

Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction 2024 finalists

Another Word for Love

Carvell Wallace
Feeding Ghosts

Tessa Hulls
The Achilles Trap

Steve Coll
The Garden Against Time

Olivia Laing
Undue Burden

Shefali Luthra

Same country and decade

United Kingdom · 2020s

Black Bag

Luke Kennard
John of John

Douglas Stuart
The End of Everything

M. John Harrison
The Mercy Step

Marcia Hutchinson
The Palm House

Gwendoline Riley
Benbecula

Graeme Macrae Burnet

More like this

Burntcoat

Sarah Hall

1 shared subject
Shutdown

Adam Tooze

1 shared subject
Labours of Love

Madeleine Bunting

1 shared subject
Love and Other Thought Experiments

Sophie Ward

1 shared subject
Hello World

Hannah Fry

1 shared subject
H(A)PPY

Nicola Barker

1 shared subject
Phone

Will Self

1 shared subject
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

Adam Rutherford

1 shared subject