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
