These are the four books being released this election day that we are turning to once the polls close.

As big tech pushes us from the information age into an era of artificial intelligence, it behooves us to stop and reconsider if information can really the basis of our entire reality—or if there is something deeper in human creativity, human wisdom, open and honest human conversation, and the living environment humans have evolved in that we must reconnect to, restore, and maintain.

The pace of change, we’re often told, is accelerating. To understand how the world is changing, how it affects us, and how we might, in turn, effect change ourselves, it helps to slow down and pick up a good nonfiction book.