Within and Without, a Poem (1855)

Poems (1855)

Phantastes: a Faerie Romance for Men and Women (1858)

David Elginbrod (3 volumes) (1863)

Adela Cathcart (3 volumes) (1864)

The Portent: a story of the Inner Vision of the Highlanders commonly called the Second Sight. (1864)

Alec Forbes of Howglen (3 volumes) (1865)

Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (3 volumes) (1867)

Dealings with the Fairies (including The Golden Key) (1867)

Unspoken Sermons. 1st Series. (1867)

Unspoken Sermons. 2nd Series (1885)

Unspoken Sermons. 3rd Series (1889)

Guild Court (3 volumes) (1868)

Robert Falconer (3 volumes) (1868)

The Seaboard Parish (3 volumes) (1868)

The Miracles of our Lord (1 volume) (1870)

At the Back of the North Wind (1871)

Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood (1871)

Works of Fancy and Imagination (chiefly reprints) (10 volumes) (1871)

The Princess and the Goblin (1872)

The Vicar's Daughter (3 volumes) (1872)

Wilfred Cumbermede (3 volumes) (1872)

Gutta Percha Willie: the Working Genius (1873)

England's Antiphon (1874)

Malcolm (3 volumes) (1875)

The Wise Woman, a Parable (1875)

Thomas Wingfold, Curate (3 volumes) (1876)

St George and St Michael (3 volumes) (1876)

Exotics: a Translation (in verse) of the Spiritual Songs of Novalis, the Hymn Book of Luther and other Poems from the German and Italian (1876)

The Marquis of Lossie (3 volumes) (1877)

Sir Gibbie (3 volumes) (1879)

Paul Faber, Surgeon (3 volumes) (1879)

A Book of Strife, in the form of the Diary of an Old Soul (1880)

Mary Marston (3 volumes) (1881)

Castle Warlock, a homely romance (3 volumes) (1882)

Weighed and Wanting (3 volumes) (1882)

The Gifts of the Christ Child, and other Tales (2 volumes)
n.d. Later published with title of Stephen Archer and Other Tales (1 volume) (1882)

A Dish of Orts (1882)

Donal Grant (3 volumes) (1883)

A Threefold Cord. Poems by Three Friends, edited by George MacDonald (1883)

The Princess and Curdie (1883)

The Tragedie of Hamlet - with a study of the text of the Folio of 1623 (1885)

What's Mine's Mine (3 volumes) (1886)

Home Again, a Tale (1 volume) (1887)

The Elect Lady (1 volume) (1888)

Cross Purposes, and The Shadows: Two Fairy Stories (reprinted from Dealings with the Fairies) (1886)

A Rough Shaking, a Tale (1890)

The Light Princess and other Fairy Stories (reprinted from Dealings with the Fairies) (1890)

There and Back (3 volumes) (1891)

The Flight of the Shadow (1 volume) (1891)

A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sydney, now for their more radiance presented without their setting by George MacDonald (1891)

The Hope of the Gospel (1892)

Heather and Snow (2 volumes) (1893)

Poetical Works of George MacDonald (2 volumes) (1893)

Lilith, a Romance (1 volume) (1895)

Rampolli: Growths from a Long-planted Root, being translations chiefly from the German, along with A Year's Diary of an Old Soul (Poems) (1897)

Salted with Fire, a Tale (1 volume) (1897)

Secondary

Fremantle, Anne (ed.), The Visionary Novels of George MacDonald, Intro by W.H. Auden (1954).

Gifford, D., ‘Myth, Parody and Dissociation: Scottish Literature 1814-1914’, The History of Scottish Literature, vol. III , ed. D. Gifford (1988).

Hein, Rolland, The Harmony Within: The Spiritual Vision of George MacDonald (1989).

The Circle of the Imagination: George MacDonald's Phantastes and Lilith', SSL 17 (1982).

Manlove, Colin. Scottish Fantasy Literature; A Critical Survey (1994). 'George MacDonald's Early Scottish Novels', Nineteenth Century Scottish Fiction: Critical Essays, ed. Ian Campbell, (Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1979), pp. 68-88.,The Impulse of Fantasy Literature (London: Macmillan, 1983), pp. 70-92.

Raeper, William, George MacDonald (Tring: Lion, 1987).

Saintsbury, Elizabeth, George MacDonald: A Short Life (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1987).

Wolff, Robert Lee, The Golden Key: A Study of the Fiction of George MacDonald (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961).