The phrase "authorized book" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a book that has been officially approved or sanctioned by a relevant authority or organization.
Example: "The library only stocks authorized books for the curriculum to ensure that students have access to reliable and approved resources."
Alternatives: "approved book" or "official book".
This month, "The Queen's Diamonds," the first authorized book about the royal jewels, has been published by Royal Collections Publications.
Mr. Chase provided only a few hints of illumination in an interview for an authorized book about the series.
Knopf, part of the Random House division of Bertelsmann, is considered the most likely publisher of an authorized book.
But some battles with the Beckett estate were clearly lost along the way, thus this is an authorized book of letters, "selected" rather than "collected".
But somewhere in New York there's a publisher or two or three who will pay a lot of money for her authorized book.
For years, the church has had a contract with a biographer, Dan Sherman, to chronicle the founder's life, but there is still no authorized book, and the church refused to let me talk to Sherman.
A lawyer for Ms. Adaya spent the late afternoon cross-examining Mr. Paletz, with an eye toward showing that he had never been authorized to book the event in the first place, and had peppered his testimony with errors and omissions.
But Vonnegut gave the go-ahead that has allowed Mr. Shields to construct "And So It Goes," an incisive, gossipy page-turner of a biography, even if it's hard to tell just how authorized this book really is.
He could not be quoted in media reports, and the Kremlin authorized a book called "Richard Pipes: Falsifier of History" — which Dr. Pipes gleefully distributed to visitors at his Harvard office.
Hayford has authorized a book, now available in a free Internet version, that functions as a manual for self-exorcism.
She didn't authorize the book nor did she ask to read it.
