“Election news can be both overwhelming and insufficient—a veritable deluge of reports and opinion pieces, too focused on the issues of the hour, obscuring our understanding of the larger picture and deeper repercussions. True understanding takes breadth and depth. Often, it takes a book. For this election season, Booklist editors have selected two lists of books—fiction and nonfiction—for both adult and young adult readers. The recommendations explore the big questions that underlie elections: Who are we? Who do we want to be? What do we want the future to look like?”