The term 'consequential book' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a book that has had a substantial or significant impact or influence. For example, "The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is often considered a consequential book, as its themes of racial injustice and inequality have long inspired readers and sparked conversations."
But this is a consequential book, rich in ideas and powerful in feeling.
I am including this because it is a great and consequential book, though it really has little to do with non-humans and is full of pig slander.
The problem with attempting to write a consequential book about "the problem that has no name," which ambitious feminist writers try to do every few years, is that often the problem under consideration is a touch more trivial than the one Friedan took on.
Other consequential books, like Robert Wright's "Nonzero," are less obviously related to questions of policy.
More cannily, it is the vehicle for the digital publishing rights that Rowling kept hold of personally, and where she places material not thought consequential enough for full book publication; it was also, for some time, the only place Rowling sold ebooks and audiobooks to readers.
Without hesitation I named McEvilley as my subject, and within a week I made my selection of his most consequential essays for the book I named, Capacity: History, the World and the Self in Art and Criticism, and which became one of the first editions in Ostrow's series, Critical Voices in Art, Theory, and Culture.
WE use technological shortcuts for things from simple tasks like booking vacations and buying books to more consequential matters like searching for a new home or trying to diagnose our ailments.
"The present, as we know it, began to take shape during those 12 consequential months," said W. Joseph Campbell in his book, 1995: The Year the Future Began.
Not many books have been as consequential as "Origin of Species," and Mr. Bettany's Darwin, as imagined by the director Jon Amiel and the screenwriter John Collee, has more than an inkling of what the fallout will be.
These aren't so much skills as tendencies — inclinations — that prove to be every bit as consequential as the stuff of rankings and record books.
There is nothing consequential or even particularly clever in the book, the music or the lyrics.
