These book cover designs are quite striking.
Wow, my pun game is on fire.
Here are book covers with matches and matchboxes on the cover! Explore the tag “fire” and “matches” to see more covers just 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
Published by Viking, 2023

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

A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan Hawke
Designed by John Gall

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Designed by Adalis Martinez

Hieroglyphics by Jill McCorkle

History Is Embarrassing by Karen Chase
Published by 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
Designed by Adalis Martinez

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

Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
Designed by Mumtaz Mustafa

Red Herring by Jonothan Cullinane
Designed by Darren Holt

Think Again by Adam Grant
Designed by 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
Published by Powerhouse Books

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

Assorted Fire Events by David Means
Designed by Charlotte Strick

Hotels of North America by Rick Moody
Designed by Keith Hayes

The Age of Grievance by Frank Bruni
Designed by Ben Wiseman

Glory by Gillian Wigmore
Published by Invisible Publishing

Exhausted by Anna Katharina Shaffner
Designed by Steve Coventry-Panton

Kindling by Kathleen Jennings
Designed by Kathleen Jennings
