Best Book Covers of 2007

We're getting to this a bit late, but Joseph Sullivan's Book Design Review has a lineup of the year's best book covers. All of them are good enough to eat: Love the cover-as-T-shirt mini-trend (for Unmarketable, left, as well as the splendidly titled Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History) and the abecedarian anthropomorphism of Salt. Yet more striking are those covers that don't actually include the title of the book in question: see Zbigniew Herbert lighting a cigarette for The Collected Poems, the matter-of-fact designs for The Little Girl and the Cigarette (right) and One Red Paperclip, or the terrifying cover of Fireproof, guaranteed to stop the bookstore browser in her tracks: