The phrase "a book designed to" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the purpose or intention of a book. Example: "The textbook is a valuable resource, filled with practical exercises and informative illustrations, designed to help students improve their writing skills."
But this isn't a book designed to be read.
A misleading title might suit a book designed to disabuse us of our respect for veracity.
It's like an accidental experimental masterpiece: a book designed to find the limits of bookiness.
This is not a book designed to please long-term followers and anyone hoping for sly, grown-up references will find none.
Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me is in the same mode of The Fire Next Time; it is a book designed to wake you up.
If there was ever a book designed to prove irresistible to my 17-year-old self, the Faber first edition of Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson is it.
To be a great achiever create a rule book designed to enhance your success, setting you apart from the average person who lives their lives under limiting beliefs keeping them thinking and living small.
During a "Fox & Friends" segment Tuesday, contributor Jedediah Bila expressed outrage over a comic book designed to teach undocumented immigrant children how to respond if approached by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
Nor is this a "techie" book, designed to appeal to nerds.
This collection of over 90 photographs has evolved into Dignity: In Honor of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (powerHouse Books; October 2010), a photography book designed to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Amnesty International.
American women did not take kindly to offal and few took the advice of a recipe book designed to assist the 'gallant soldier on the home front... in making the most of her meat purchases during the present emergency' by beginning resolutely to jelly tongues, Creole kidneys, fry liver like the French, and apply the cooking of Maryland to tripe.
