Sounds a bit hippy but, when I was going through a rough time, my cousin gave me a book called Step into the Magic..about mediating and visualising spirit guides etc..really helped at the time.
There are 2 by the same author and I can’t remember the name of the other..more magic or something..the 2nd one was better but the first a good run into the techniques.
Ok looked it up..by Gill Edwards ..”Stepping into the Magic”: A New Approach to Everyday Life and the other is “Living Magically”: A New Vision of Reality .
I read a book nobody else has ever read: The Honest Dollar, by Dorothy Simpson. About a girl who lobstered on the Maine coast and worked very hard. Sounds silly, but probably it was the fact that a girl was the main character and got something in return for her hard work - like supporting her younger siblings.
Maybe that book is why I moved to Maine years later.
I have other examples, but will send titles later.