I immediately wanted to respond to this concept of affecting the brain with reading material. I have always read literature that reveals human nature. But I read Heidegger's Being and Time, and it altered the course of my reading habits. I was much more interested in how things were said than as a story. His book does what you say: Rewires the brain. His writing manifests his thesis that Gazillions of things are going on simultaneously. I believe that he wrote it in such a way as to affect that idea. I still read literature, as with Granta editions mostly, and great literature, but the next great book I read, which follows your thesis, was Jean-Paul Sartre's The Critique of Dialectical Reason and many others, which embody the affective read.