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 by Salar Abdoh
Publisher: Viking, 2023

The Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown; 2024

A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke
Designer: John Gall

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Designer: Adalis Martinez

Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle

History Is Embarrassing by Karen Chase
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Burn It Down edited by Lilly Dancyger

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Art directed by John Gall in 2009; Photographed by Alison Gootee

Cascade by Craig Davidson

Once In A House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth

Little Bandaged Days by Kyra Wilder

The State of Affairs by Esther Perel
Designer: Adalis Martinez

Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
Designer: Jimmy Iacobelli, Photographer: Adalis Martinez

Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
Designer: Mumtaz Mustafa

Think Again by Adam Grant
Designer: Pete Garceau

Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
Published by Ecco, 2022

Girlhood by Cat Clarke

A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
Published by Random House, 2003, hardcover edition

A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
Published by Random House, 2004, paperback edition

A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
UK edition, 2004

Friction by Jeff Rosenblum and Jordan Berg
Publisher: Powerhouse Books

Burning Butch by R/B Mertz
Published by Unnamed Press, 2022

Assorted Fire Events by David Means
Designer: Charlotte Strick

Hotels of North America by Rick Moody
Designer: Keith Hayes

The Age of Grievance by Frank Bruni
Designer: Ben Wiseman

Glory by Gillian Wigmore
Publisher: Invisible Publishing

Exhausted by Anna Katharina Shaffner
Designer: Steve Coventry-Panton

Kindling by Kathleen Jennings
Designer: Kathleen Jennings
