The phrase "requested book" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used in a library or bookstore setting when asking for a book that has been requested. For example, "I'm here to pick up the requested book I put on hold."
He wasn't allowed to check out the library's copy of "People's History," its most requested book.
He and Arunga requested book donations from writer friends, who provided copies of their own work.
"Don Quixote," which Cervantes wrote partially in prison, is the second most requested book at Guantànamo.
On the bright side, "Gomorrah" is reportedly the most requested book in Italian jails.
Serious scholars certainly have other work to fill their time while they wait 24 hours for a requested book from off-site storage.
The most requested book of all, Mr. Steinberg says, may have been Robert Greene's "48 Laws of Power" (1998), a macho and plainspoken synthesis of the ideas in books like Machiavelli's "Prince" and Sun Tzu's "Art of War".
In them, she requested books to be sent to her home, Sagamore Hill, near Oyster Bay.
Whirling from child to child, she swiftly pulled volumes off the shelves as third graders requested books on sharks and scary topics.
Soldiers requested books on engineering, the trades, business, farming, and other subjects that would help to establish new careers after their return home.
However, the new £26m books repository, which will eventually hold 8.4m of the least frequently requested books and periodicals, is the key to unlocking a transformation of the Bodleian's famous buildings in Oxford.
Three nights a week, in a tiny basement room below the offices of the New York City AIDS Housing Network, in Brooklyn, volunteers wrap requested books in butcher paper to be mailed to prisons across the United States — first making sure to cut any pictures of naked people out of the art books to beat the nameless prison mailroom censors.
