And the Results Are In: Your Favorites of 2007

This year's poll was a great success. 2519 votes were cast. The poll is now closed -- my sincere thanks go to everyone who voted.

The winner? With 13% of the votes, David Drummond's design of Small Crimes in the Age of Abundance, also recognized in this year's AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers show:


A very close second (with 11% of the vote) goes to Evan Gaffney's design of One Perfect Day:


These two were clear favorites, accounting for nearly 1 out of every 4 votes.

6 other books received at least 5% of the votes: The Yiddish Policeman's Union, The Cigarette Century, One Red Paperclip, The Collected Poems 1956-1998, After Dark, and Brave New World (not previously discussed here).

I was surprised The Worst Years of Your Life didn't fare better, coming in 9th with 4% of the votes. If you haven't seen it in person, make a note to yourself to check it out in the bookshop.

Wish I Could Be There brought up the bottom. Gotta tell you, I still like it, for reasons explained in the original post.

Covers that I didn't include but which were mentioned by those leaving comments include Rodrigo Corral's designs of The Dead Fish Museum paperback and Rant and Alister McInness' How to Speak at Special Events, among others.

So again, thanks to all who voted, all who visited, all who left comments -- in short, all who made this first BDR poll a very fun experience. Check out the original Favorites of 2007 post here.

For you completists out there, here are the totals:

Title	Number of Votes	Percent of Total Votes
Small Crimes in An Age of Abundance	318 votes	13%
One Perfect Day	280 votes	11%
The Yiddish Policemans Union		6%
The Cigarette Century	163 votes	6%
One Red Paperclip	157 votes	6%
The Collected Poems	146 votes	5%
After Dark	138 votes	5%
Brave New World	126 votes	5%
The Worst Years of Your Life	118 votes	4%
Words Without Borders	113 votes	4%
The Chess Machine	112 votes	4%
Ghost Map	104 votes	3%
Unmarketable	88 votes	3%
Like You’d Understand, Anyway	64 votes	2%
The Unbinding	60 votes	2%
Fireproof	55 votes	2%
No Cause for Indictment	51 votes	2%
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History	46 votes	2%
Salt	46 votes	2%
Darkness at Noon	43 votes	2%
How to Read Comics	41 votes	2%
Cool It	39 votes	2%
Strawberry Fields	39 votes	2%
Race Riots	38 votes	2%
Six Degrees	33 votes	1%
Tree of Smoke	24 votes	1%
The Little Girl and the Cigarette	23 votes	1%
Wish I Could Be There	15 votes	1%