New special edition copies of the blockbuster Twilight saga come with blood-red ink along the edge of the pages. We suss out age-old design tricks, in order to judge a book by its page edge.

Rupert Isaacson's heartwarming tale of how Mongolian horses and shamans might cure his son's autism has 2009's best book cover. Yep, we're calling next year's best book cover in 2008.