While the definitive work on the Challenger expedition is, of course, Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS Challenger, the books below are useful as a starting point for expanding knowledge of both the history of the voyage and the science of oceanography.

Bell, Graham. Full Fathom 5000: the Expedition of HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197541579.001.0001.

Corfield, R. M. The Silent Landscape: the Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2003.

Harvell, C. Drew. Ocean Outbreak: Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2019.

Jean-Numa Foulc, and Frederic Aitken. From Deep Sea to Laboratory 1: The First Explorations of the Deep Sea by H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876). John Wiley & Sons Incorporated: John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, 2019. https://resolver.ebscohost.com/Redirect/PRL?EPPackageLocationID=2106155.20267656.45468125&epcustomerid=s9001366.

Jean-Numa Foulc, and Frederic Aitken. From Deep Sea to Laboratory 2: Discovering H.M.S. Challenger's Physical Measurements Relating to Ocean Circulation. John Wiley & Sons Incorporated: John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, 2019. https://resolver.ebscohost.com/Redirect/PRL?EPPackageLocationID=2106155.20816763.47638830&epcustomerid=s9001366.

Macdougall, J. D. Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest: the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

Mills, Eric L., ed. One Hundred Years of Oceanography: Essays Commemorating the Visit of H.M.S. Challenger to Halifax, May 9-19, 1873. Halifax, N.S.: Dalhousie University : Nova Scotia Museum, 1975.

Moseley, H. N. Notes by a Naturalist: an Account of Observations Made during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger ... London: T. Werner Laurie, 1944.

Shephard, Benjamin. Challenger Sketchbook: B. Shephard's Sketchbook of the H. M. S. Challenger Expedition, 1872-1874. Edited by Harris B. Stewart and J. Welles Henderson. [Philadelphia]: Philadelphia Maritime Museum; distributed by the New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1972.

Thomson, C. Wyville. The Voyage of the "Challenger": the Atlantic: a Preliminary Account of the General Results of the Exploring Voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" during the Year 1873 and the Early Part of the Year 1876. New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 1878

Williams, Peter J. leB, Dylan W. Evans, David J. Roberts, David N. Thomas, and Ernst Haeckel. Art Forms from the Abyss: Ernst Haeckel's Images from the HMS Challenger Expedition. Munich: Prestel, 2015.