zkrisher, There is a 2 for 1 credit sale on Audible.
Here are recommend:
Translation State By: Ann Leckie
This is sci-fi with alien aliens, something not as common as you'd think. But it is first and formost about consent and found family.
Land of Milk and Honey By: C Pam Zhang
"A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles".
(I haven't read it yet, but heard good things and am getting it myself)
The Broken Room By: Peter Clines
More of an action movie than a novel, a fast paced page turner.
Footfall By: Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
This i s an old one, but a thought experiment of it's time.
How would humanity fight off an alien invasion with the tehcnology and resources that were available in the 1980s.