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You can already be sued for it -- whether they'd win in court is another question, though, since showing the cover of a book with a review of it is a common enough practice that a court would likely hold it to be fair use, so long as it's done within reason.
Right now, if they to get those images taken down, they'd more likely contact your web site provider. Many web providers are eager to stay out of court even when they would probably win the case, so they'd have a good chance of getting your provider to pull down the images.
What SOPA/PIPA would change is that a copyright holder would be able to ask for your site to be blocked by the government. Once that's done, people in the US would be unable to get to your site. It wouldn't just get rid of the images -- the whole site would be blocked. You'd then have to prove that you weren't infringing before your site could be unblocked.
Them suing you is a separate issue -- SOPA/PIPA doesn't give them any ability there that they didn't already have. It "just" lets them have your site blocked without having to go to court first.
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