More Close-Up Covers

After yesterday's post, Nikki in the book department pointed out the new Lolita cover. It's lip-licious:

And then, of course, there's the cover of Stephenie Meyer's The Host, which is indeed an ECU (as they say in the biz), but it somehow lacks the sensual realism of the other covers:

Fiction Ready for Its (Extreme) Close-Up

Three covers makes a trend, right? This one is better than the women's legs and men's shoes trends that overwhelmed contemporary fiction five years ago. Let's just hope they don't start showing close-ups of men. Nobody needs that...because men are ugly.