more book ideas... (the top two pulled from the new yorker article; The Secret can be on the table too although I've always had a bit of distaste in my mouth when thinking about it... and the article actually killed some of my excitement too... reading about Barbara Ehrenreich's take on things (she wrote Bright-Sided: How positive thinking is undermining America)):

Emerson Nature (essay published anonymously in 1836)

Wallace D. Watts The Science of Getting Rich 1910

memoirs...

some of Agnes Martin's writings would be great to read in conjunction with something else