The phrase "a strong book" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a book that has a powerful impact, compelling narrative, or significant themes.
Example: "After reading it, I can confidently say that this is a strong book that challenges readers to think deeply about their beliefs."
Alternatives: "a powerful book" or "an impactful book".
I'd like to end with a strong book".
A strong book, catchy lyrics and tunes to whistle afterwards?
You don't have to travel all the way across the world to write a strong book or teach a seminar".
"It's a strong book, an AMBITIOUS book, a worthy winner … and the first Hugo to go to China, which is cool.
Not only do these two fabulous shows bookend a great decade for the musical, but they prove that the genre is at its best when the songs and the dance routines grow out of a strong book.
The now-classic quartet of, ahem, 90's downtown semifree jazz, with John Zorn on alto saxophone, Dave Douglas on trumpet, Greg Cohen on bass and Joey Baron on drums, go through a strong book of Eastern Europeanized cookers and ballads.
Beatlebone is, by a significant margin, a stronger book than City of Bohane (which read to me like an irony-free version of Last Tango In Aberystwyth).
His earlier bildungsroman, The Favourite Game, following the romantic and social adventures of Lawrence Breavman, a Cohen alter-ego, might have been a stronger book had it not been so obviously the work of a young man.
"The Amateur Marriage" is a stronger book than these recent productions (all of which have fine things in them) and is also Tyler's most ambitious work, ranging over 60 years of American experience, from the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the anniversary of that day in 2001.
I'm grateful to her, as I think the final version is a stronger book.
So, there you have it: an extraordinarily strong book by a major German author, ingeniously translated, produced with love by an idealistic publisher intent on doing something about the shamefully small proportion of foreign literature whose existence our country acknowledges.
