I have been an audible member for 6 1/2 years.
I have listened to 228 audio books in that time.
I'm just about done with Robert Wilson's "Spin" trilogy (spectacular, mediocre, dreck - thanks for asking) and was all set to embark on a dreary exploration of the Spanish Flu epidemic when _refugee_ fucked with my mojo.
Read Harriet the Spy. Great book. Read To Kill A Mockingbird. Great book.
Have not read The Feminine Mystique.
Have not read Silent Spring.
Am currently reading The Second Self (1 audiobook, 1 kindle book, ideally at least one of them is fiction). Have, at various times, decided I need to read The Koran, The Golden Bough, and bought the first seven Toynbee books at great expense on eBay.
So here's the question -
All those books? The ones that everyone always uses in arguments? The ones that shaped culture, policy, society? The ones you liked reading?
Yeah, gimme those. After a six-month binge on geopolitics I'm ready to do something other than crap deus-ex-machina grey goo pulp sci fi.
East of Eden is probably my favorite book ever. It makes The Grapes of Wrath look like it was written by an 8 year old in comparison, in my opinion.
Good luck with the Quran. I'm of the mind that it's really only possible to get the full experience by reading it in Arabic. Our vocabulary is more verbose, some sentences only make sense in the language. I'd suggest listening to it in Arabic too, if you can.
If you're looking for something more, innocent, I suppose, I suggest Brave Story. Very few books make me cry, that book was one of them.