Here are countless book cover designs that are quite striking. Wow, my pun game is on fire.
Explore the tag “fire” and “matches” to see more covers like these.
*If you’re able to provide any missing design credits, please write me at ineedabookcover.site@gmail.com.
Today’s blog post cover photo features actual matchboxes created by Clara von Zweigbergk in collaboration with Shane Schneck and sold via Hay. I own some and they’re A+
A Nearby Country Called Love
Author: Salar Abdoh
Publisher: Viking, 2023
The Revenge of the Tipping Point
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown; 2024
A Bright Ray of Darkness
Author: Ethan Hawke
Designer: John Gall
Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Moonglow
Author: Michael Chabon
Designer: Adalis Martinez
Hieroglyphics
Author: Jill McCorkle
History Is Embarrassing
Author: Karen Chase
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Burn It Down
Editor: Lilly Dancyger
Pale Fire
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Art directed by John Gall in 2009; Photographed by Alison Gootee
Cascade
Author: Craig Davidson
Once In A House on Fire
Author: Andrea Ashworth
Little Bandaged Days
Author: Kyra Wilder
The State of Affairs
Author: Esther Perel
Designer: Adalis Martinez
Mating in Captivity
Author: Esther Perel
Design by Jimmy Iacobelli, photography by Adalis Martinez
Retrospective
Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Burntcoat
Author: Sarah Hall
Design by Mumtaz Mustafa
Think Again
Author: Adam Grant
Designer: Pete Garceau
Your House Will Pay
Author: Steph Cha
Published by Ecco, 2022
Girlhood
Author: Cat Clarke
A Box of Matches
Author: Nicholson Baker
Published by Random House, 2003, hardcover edition
A Box of Matches
Author: Nicholson Baker
Published by Random House, 2004, paperback edition
A Box of Matches
Author: Nicholson Baker
UK edition, 2004
Friction
Published by Powerhouse Books
Burning Butch
PAuthor: R/B Mertz
Published by Unnamed Press, 2022
Assorted Fire Events
Author: David Means
Designer: Charlotte Strick
Hotels of North America
Author: Rick Moody
Designer: Keith Hayes
The Age of Grievance
Author: Frank Bruni
Designer: Ben Wiseman
Glory
Author: Gillian Wigmore
Publisher: Invisible Publishing
Exhausted
Author: Anna Katharina Shaffner
Designer: Steve Coventry-Panton
Kindling
Author: Kathleen Jennings
Designer: Kathleen Jennings
