Like a House on Fire is a 2012 collection of fifteen short stories by Australian author Cate Kennedy. The collection was the winner of the 2013 Steele Rudd Award at the Queensland Literary Awards and was shortlisted for the Nita Kibble Literary Award and the Stella Prize.
Like a House on Fire received positive reviews. In a review in Australian Book Review, Anthony Lynch praised the realism of Kennedy's stories and wrote that her "subtle, insightful renderings of character achieve great poignancy". In the New Zealand Herald, John McCrystal wrote that the collection was "short fiction at its best". Meg Whelan gave the collection 4 out of 5 stars in a review for Books+Publishing magazine, describing it as a "heartfelt and moving collection" and praising Kennedy's "evocative prose". Reviewers praised the stories Seventy-two Derwents, told from the perspective of a child witnessing her mother's abusive relationship, and Laminex and Mirrors, a story about a hospital cleaner who helps an elderly patient to defy the hospital's rules.