"This collection, as I have said, was designed not to revive MacDonald's literary reputation but to spread his religious teaching. Hence most of my extracts are taken from the three volumes of Unspoken Sermons. My own debt to this book is almost as great as one man can owe to another: and nearly all serious inquirers to whom I have introduced it acknowledge that it has given them great help-sometimes indispensable help toward the very acceptance of the Christian faith.

I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. Hence his Christ-like union of tenderness and severity. Nowhere else outside the New Testament have I found terror and comfort so intertwined.

In making this collection I was discharging a debt of justice. I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master; indeed I fancy I have never written a book in which I did not quote from him. But it has not seemed to me that those who have received my books kindly take even now sufficient notice of the affiliation. Honesty drives me to emphasize it."

• Rock group The Waterboys titled their album Room to Roam after a passage in MacDonald's Phantastes, also found in Lilith. The title track of the album comprises a MacDonald poem from the text of Phantastes set to music by the band. The works Lilith and Phantastes are both named as books in a library, in the title track of another Waterboys album, Universal Hall. The Waterboys have also quoted from C.S. Lewis in several songs including Church Not Made With Hands and Further Up, Further In, confirming the enduring link in modern pop culture between Macdonald and Lewis.

• A verse from The Light Princess is cited in the Beauty and the Beast song by Nightwish.

• Contemporary new-age musician Jeff Johnson wrote a song titled The Golden Key based on George MacDonald's story of the same name. He has also written several other songs inspired by MacDonald and the Inklings.

• Christian celtic punk band Ballydowse have a song called "George MacDonald" on their album Out of the Fertile Crescent. The song liberally quotes from "Phantastes."

• Jazz pianist and recording artist Ray Lyon has a song called "Up The Spiral Stairs" on his CD "Beginning To See" which was released in 2007. The song features lyrics from MacDonald's September 26 and 27 devotional readings from the book "Diary of An Old Soul".

• Novelist Patricia Kennealy Morrison has a fictional rock band of the Sixties named "Evenor" in her Rock & Roll Murders: The Rennie Stride Mysteries series.

• On their 2008 release A Thousand Shark's Teeth the band My Brightest Diamond included a track titled "From the Top of the World" that was inspired by "At the Back of the North Wind."

• Within and Without (1855)
• Poems (1857)
• Phantastes (1858)
• Cross Purposes (1862)
• David Elginbrod (1863) (republished as The Tutor's First Love)
• The Portent (1864)
• Adela Cathcart (1864) (contains The Light Princess, The Shadows, The Giant's Heart, My Uncle Peter, A Journey Rejourneyed and other shorter stories)
• A Hidden Life and Other Poems (1864)
• Alec Forbes of Howglen (1865) (republished as The Maiden's Bequest)
• Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (1867)
• Unspoken Sermons (1867)
• Dealings with the Fairies (1867) (contains The Golden Key)
• The Disciple and Other Poems (1867)
• A London Story (1868)
• Robert Falconer (1868) (republished as The Musician's Quest)
• England's Antiphon (1868, 1874)
• The Seaboard Parish (1868)
• The Miracles of Our Lord (1870)
• At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
• Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood (1871)
• Works of Fancy and Imagination (1871)
• Wilfrid Cumbermede (1871, 1872)
• The Vicar's Daughter (1871, 1872)
• The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
• The History of Gutta-Percha Willie, the Working Genius (1873)
• Malcolm (1875) (republished as a two-volume work containing The Fisherman's Lady and The Marquis' Secret)
• The Lost Princess (1875) [alternative title: * A Parable]
• Exotics (1876)
• St. George and St. Michael (1876)
• Thomas Wingfold, Curate (1876) (republished as The Curate's Awakening)
• The Marquis of Lossie (1877) (republished asThe Marquis’ Secret)
• Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879) (republished asThe Lady's Confession)
• Sir Gibbie (1879) (republished as The Baronet's Song)
• A Book of Strife, in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul (1880)
• Mary Marston (1881) (republished as A Daughter's Devotion)
• Warlock O' Glenwarlock (also entitled The Laird's Inheritance or Castle Warlock)

• Weighed and Wanting (1882) (republished as A Gentlewoman's Choice)
• The Gifts of the Child Christ and Other Tales (1882)
• Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare (1882)
• The Day Boy and the Night Girl (1882)
• The Princess and Curdie (1883, sequel to ' The Princess and the Goblin ')
• Donal Grant (1883) (republished as The Shepherd's Castle) Companion story of Gibbie and his friend Donal
• Poems by Three Friends (1883)
• Stephen Archer and Other Tales (1883)
• Preface to Letters from Hell by LWJS (1884)
• A Study with the Test of the Folio of 1623 (1885)
• Unspoken Sermons, Second Series (1885)
• What's Mine's Mine (1886) (republished as The Highlander's Last Song)
• Poems (1887)
• Home Again, a Tale (1887) (republished as The Poet's Homecoming)
• The Elect Lady (1888) (republished as The Landlady's Master)
• Unspoken Sermons, Third Series (1889)
• A Rough Shaking (1891)
• There and Back (1891 (republished as The Baron's Apprenticeship)
• The Flight of the Shadow (1891)
• A Cabinet of Gems (1891)
• The Hope of the Gospel (1892)
• Heather and Snow (1893) (republished as The Peasant Girl's Dream)
• A Dish of Orts (1893)
• The Poetical Works (1893) (including many previously unpublished poems)
• Scotch Songs and Ballads (1893)
• Lilith (1895)
• Salted with Fire (1896) (republished as The Minister's Restoration)
• Far above Rubies (1898)
• Evenor (1972 (collection of three stories)

• North Wind. A Journal of George MacDonald Studies. The Journals of the George MacDonald Society
• Greville MacDonald, George MacDonald and his Wife, London: *George Allen & Unwin, 1924 (republished 1998 by Johannesen ISBN 1-881084-63-9
• Rolland Hein, George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker. Star Song Publishing, 1993. ISBN 1-56233-046-2
• William Raeper, George MacDonald. Novelist and Victorian Visionary, Lion Publishing, 1987
• Thomas Gerold, Die Gotteskindschaft des Menschen. Die theologische Anthropologie bei George MacDonald, Münster: Lit, 2006 ISBN 3-8258-9853-9 (A study of MacDonald's theology).
• George MacDonald Selections From His Greatest Works, compiled by David L. Neuhouser, published by Victor Press 1990. ISBN 0-89693-788-7
• Wingfold. A journal "Celebrating the works of George MacDonald". Published by Barbara Amell