coffee-table book
noun
: a large expensive book with many pictures that is typically placed on a table for people to look at in a casual way
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Inspired to write a piece about the game, Roger takes his passion a step further and sells a proposal for a coffee-table book about pinball.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
One of his few literary-political compositions from the period is an introduction to a coffee-table book of car crashes and other technological failures: welcome intrusions of fate in the heart of the liberal metropolis.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
One of his few literary-political compositions from the period is an introduction to a coffee-table book of car crashes and other technological failures: welcome intrusions of fate in the heart of the liberal metropolis.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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“Coffee-table book.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coffee-table%20book. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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