I re-read just about anything by Terry Pratchett or Anne McCaffrey to get out of this world.

In this world, John McPhee, especially his love story "Rising from the Plains" and most of Berndt Heinrich, especially "The Trees in My Forest" which are so familiar.

I have the "Hitchhiker's Guide" original and new series on my Itunes list, and bits and pieces turn up when I listen randomly. Ditto for the poems of Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson and "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Riding" (the GOOD reading by Audio Renaissance not the more easily available Audible.com reading). I wish I could find a recording of Matt Parker, a Vermont poet (I think) who wrote "The Giving War."