What We Are Reading Today: Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

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Updated 05 July 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham

“Midnight In Chernobyl” offers a harrowing and compelling narrative of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster through the eyes of the men and women who witnessed it firsthand. 

Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of the world. The book is an indelible portrait of history’s worst nuclear disaster, of human resilience and ingenuity and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will remain not just vital but necessary.

This book makes for a masterful non-fiction thriller, according to a review on goodreads.com.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls’ by Christen E. Civiletto

Updated 15 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls’ by Christen E. Civiletto

Environmental attorney Christen Civiletto relates how the major chemical kingpins of the 20th century relentlessly and indiscriminately laid waste to Niagara Falls in her eye-opening, harrowing, intimate new book, “Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls.”

Expertly interweaving environmental crime, history, and memoir, “Thundering Waters” exposes the astonishing story of exploitation and ongoing abuse lurking in the shadows of one of the world’s most treasured natural wonders.