The phrase "bedside book" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a book that is kept within easy reach of one's bed for nightly reading. It can also refer to a book that is comforting or enjoyable to read before going to sleep. Example: "My bedside book is a collection of short stories that I like to read before falling asleep."
It's certainly a splendid bedside book.
Mr. François's first book, "Double Bedside Book," was published in 1952.
Here's the perfect bedside book for an age like our own, when everything is known and nothing is understood.
Monday, May 29 Today I couldn't go to Graeme's Bedside Book of Birds presentation because I was doing another event, but after that we both went to see the weekend's biggest attraction: the Al Gore speech.
KESWICK: Miscellanies and bedside books thrive at this time of the year and very useful they are too as presents - but a "Farmer's Bedside Book," surely this is something different?
She did enjoy other biographies — they included Winston Churchill's "Marlborough: His Life and Times," which she judged "not heavy to read, but heavy to hold in my hand" — although of Edith Wharton's autobiography, "A Backward Glance," she wrote, "Mrs. Wharton made a good bedside book.
My current stack of bedside books is topped by two collections of thoughtful essays.
A pile of bedside books in the room he shared with some of his 27 wives includes one on Chinese astrology.
Either real games or mind games can work; if you're playing a real game, keep the game material at your bedside and a book light to keep the light level low.
He is that person who works contentedly in the day with the happy assurance that back home on the bedside table is a book he longs to continue reading.
The story focuses on the surprise discovery of an 11th-century Japanese pillow book, the bedside diary of a noblewoman, whose revelatory detail has the potential to revitalize scholarship of the period, not to mention make a bundle for Darius Wheeler, the dealer who has never let scruples (or the law) stand in the way of a profit.
