Lifestyle Mirror

These days, literary scandals are a dime a dozen. Remember the fall out after author James Frey’s exaggerations in A Million Little Pieces? Or the false quotes constructed by Wall Street Journal intern Liane Membis? Or what about the plagiarism and fabrication scandals surrounding former journalists Stephen Randall Glass and Jayson Blair?

The recent discovery of New Yorker staff writer Jonah Lehrer’s similar sins in his best selling book Imagine: How Creativity Works hit the newswires hard. And while the 31-year-old writer has already resigned from his position at the magazine and released an apology for the “lies” he both wrote and told, his publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has moved to eliminate Imagine from bookstores, reports the New York Times.

So, for those whose creative curiosity has been piqued by the book’s subject or scandal, here are four (vetted) reads to enjoy while Imagine gets pulled from the shelves. —Sasha Levine (@sashalevine)