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The Ever-Growing List of Book Covers feat. Matches

These covers are lit

The Ever-Growing List of Book Covers feat. Matches

These covers are lit

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

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