Changing Planes
by Ursula K. Le Guin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003)
audiobook read by Gabrielle de Cuir (Phoenix Books, 2007)
A fix-up collection of short stories, none of which function as stories per se. Instead, with languid, dreamy prose, Le Guin describes alien societies, her narrator observing and reflecting and, through gentle osmosis, stirring the reader to think more deeply about humankind.