A Book of Selected Works

A coffee table book is a hardcover book that rests on a coffee table or similar surface in an area where guests sit and are entertained, thus inspiring conversation or alleviating boredom. They tend to be oversized and of heavy construction, since there is no pressing need for portability. Subject matter is generally confined to non-fiction, and is usually visually-oriented. Pages consist mainly of Art, accompanied by captions and small blocks of text, as opposed to long prose. Most tend to be biographies or fall into the genre of history, art, or entertainment.