@neauoire what a marvelous reading list. Obviously you already know you can hardly go wrong with more Wendell Berry, George Orwell, or Ursula LeGuin. I very much enjoyed Gathering Moss by Kimmerer, and revisited the Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic, and you also probably can't go wrong with a bell hooks or Sharon Salzberg. For sci-fi novellas, Valente's "The Past Is Red" (raucous) or Chambers "A Psalm For the Wild-Built" (contemplative) are in line.