Fantasy

• Phantastes, A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (1858)
  • Room to Roam
• "Cross Purposes" (1862)
• Adela Cathcart (1864)
  • The Broken Swords
  • The Cruel Painter
• The Light Princess and other Fairy Tales (1864)
• The Portent (1864)
  • The Castle
• Dealings with the Fairies (1867)
  • The Golden Key, Children searching for the mysterious "land from where the shadows fall."
• At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
  • Baby
• Works of Fancy and Imagination (1871)
  • The Carasoyn
  • The Gray Wolf
  • The Thankless Lady
• The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
• The Wise Woman: A Parable (1875)
• The Gifts of the Child Christ and Other Tales (1882)
  • The History of Photogen and Nycteris, A boy who has never seen the moon meets a girl who has never seen the sun
• The Princess and Curdie (1883)
• The Flight of the Shadow (1891)
• Lilith, a Romance (1895)

Realistic fiction

• David Elginbrod (1863)
• Alec Forbes (1865)
• Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (1867)
• Guild Court: A London Story (1868)
• Robert Falconer (1868)
• The Seaboard Parish (1869)
• Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood (1871)
• Wilfrid Cumbermede (1871–72)
• The Vicar's Daughter (1871–72)
• Gutta Percha Willie (1873)
• Malcolm (1875)
• St. George and St. Michael (1876)
• Thomas Wingfold, Curate (1876)
• The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
• The Marquis of Lossie (as printed in Littell's Living Age)

• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part I" in Littell's Living Age, 131 (1688)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part II" in Littell's Living Age, 131 (1689)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part III" in Littell's Living Age, 131 (1692)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part IV" in Littell's Living Age, 131 (1693)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part V" in Littell's Living Age, 131 (1697)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part VI" in Littell's Living Age, 131 (1698)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part VII" in Littell's Living Age, 132 (1701)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part VIII" in Littell's Living Age, 132 (1703)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part IX" in Littell's Living Age, 132 (1705)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part X" in Littell's Living Age, 132 (1706)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part XI" in Littell's Living Age, 132 (1709)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part XII" in Littell's Living Age, 132 (1710)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part XIII" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1713)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part XIV" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1714)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part XV" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1716)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part XVI" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1717)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part XVII" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1718)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part XVIII" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1722)
• "The Marquis of Lossie - Part XIX" in Littell's Living Age, 133 (1723)

• Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879)
• Sir Gibbie (1879)
• Mary Marston (1881)
• Warlock o' Glenwarlock (1881)
• Weighed and Wanting (1882)
• Donal Grant (1883)
• What's Mine's Mine (1886)
• Home Again (1887)
• The Elect Lady (1888)
• A Rough Shaking (1891)
• There and Back (1891)
• Heather and Snow (1893)
• Salted with Fire (1896)
• Far Above Rubies (1898)

Poetry

• Twelve of the Spiritual Songs of Novalis (1851)
• Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem (1855)
  • Little White Lily
• Poems (1857)
• "The Sheep and the Goat" in Good Words, 4 (1863) (external scan)
• "A Hidden Life" and Other Poems (1864)
• "The Disciple" and Other Poems (1867)
• Exotics: A Translation of the Spiritual Songs of Novalis, the Hymn-book of Luther, and Other Poems from the German and Italian (1876)
• Dramatic and Miscellaneous Poems (1876)
• Diary of an Old Soul (1880)
• The Threefold Cord: Poems by Three Friends (1883)
  • The Holy Thing
• Poems (1887)
• The Poetical Works of George MacDonald, (1893)
• Scotch Songs and Ballads (1893)
• Rampolli: Growths from a Long-planted Root (1897)

Non-fiction

• Unspoken Sermons (1867)
• England's Antiphon (1868, 1874)
• The Miracles of Our Lord (1870)
• A Letter to American Boys (1878)
• Cheerful Words from the Writing of George MacDonald (1880), compiled by E. E. Brown
• Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare (1882)
• The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: A Study With the Test of the Folio of 1623 (1885)
• Unspoken Sermons, Second Series (1885)
• Unspoken Sermons, Third Series (1889)
• A Cabinet of Gems, Cut and Polished by Sir Philip Sidney (1891)
• The Hope of the Gospel (1892)
• A Dish of Orts (1893)
• Beautiful Thoughts from George MacDonald (1894), compiled by Elizabeth Dougall

Translations

• Novalis: Hymns to The Night, written by Novalis