Historical novels

• Historical novels by Nigel Tranter set before 1286
• Historical novels by Nigel Tranter set between 1286-1603
• Historical novels by Nigel Tranter set after 1603

Contemporary and adventure novels

Children's books

• Spaniard's Isle (1958, Brockhampton Press)
• Border Riding (1959, Brockhampton Press)
• Nestor the Monster (1960, Brockhampton Press; paperback edition 1992, B & W Publishing)
• Birds of a Feather (1961, Brockhampton Press)
• The Deer Poachers (1961, Blackie)
• Something Very Fishy (1962, Collins)
• Give a Dog a Bad Name (1963, Collins. Published as Smoke Across the Highlands in USA, 1964, Platt & Monk)
• Silver Island (1964, Thomas Nelson)
• Pursuit (1965, Collins)
• Tinker Tess (1967, Dobson Books)
• Fire and High Water (1967, Collins)
• To the Rescue (1968, Dobson Books)

Non-fiction books

• The Fortalices and Early Mansions of Southern Scotland 1400-1650 (1935, The Moray Press)

Contains the sketches and notes of small castles visited throughout his teenage years and early twenties. Tranter later described it as "terribly pretentious and pretty amateurish." He expanded the format for his later work The Fortified House in Scotland.

• The Fortified House in Scotland (in five volumes)
• Pegasus Book of Scotland (1964, Dobson Books)
• Outlaw of the Highlands: Rob Roy (1965, Dobson Books)

A study of Scottish folk hero Rob Roy MacGregor. Reissued as Rob Roy MacGregor by Lochar Publishing (1991), and Neil Wilson Publishing (1995).

• Land of the Scots (1968, Hodder & Stoughton)
• The Queen's Scotland (in four volumes)

Intended to be a detailed gazetter of every parish in Scotland. His wife assisted him heavily and she died before it could be completed. Tranter never finished the series.

• Portrait of the Border Country (1972, Robert Hale)

Revised edition published in 1987 as The Illustrated Portrait of the Border Country.

• Portrait of the Lothians (1979, Robert Hale)
• Nigel Tranter's Scotland (1981, Richard Drew Publishing. Penguin edition 1983)
• Scottish Castles: Tales and Traditions

First published 1982 by Macdonald Publishing. Revised edition by Neil wilson Publishing, 1993. US Edition by Barnes & Noble, 1993.

• Traveller's Guide to the Scotland of Robert the Bruce (1985, Routledge & Kegan Paul; US edition by Historical Times Inc, 1985)
• The Story of Scotland (1987, Routledge & Kegan Paul. Re-issued 1992, Neil Wilson Publishing)
• Footbridge to Enchantment (1992, Locahr publishing. Revised edition 1993, B&W Publishing)
• No Tigers in the Hindu Kush (Editor) (1968, Hodder & Stoughton). A tribute to his son Philip who died in an accident

Westerns

• Thirsty Range (1950, Ward Lock & Co)
• Heartbreak Valley (1951, Ward Lock & Co)
• Big Corral (1952, Ward Lock & Co)
• Trail Herd (1952, Ward Lock & Co)
• Desert Doublecross (1953, Ward Lock & Co)
• Cloven Hooves (1954, Ward Lock & Co)
• Dynamite Trail (1955, Ward Lock & Co)
• Rancher Renegade (1956, Ward Lock & Co)
• Trailing Trouble (1957, Ward Lock & Co)
• Bloodstone Trail (1958, Ward Lock & Co)

• Honorary MA from the University of Edinburgh, 1971
• OBE for services to literature, 1983
• BBC Scotland Scot of the Year, 1989
• Honorary Doctor of Literature, University of Strathclyde, 1990

• In 1961, Nigel Tranter was dubbed Knight (Chevalier) of the Order of Saint Lazarus by Duc de Brissac, Grand Prior of the Order. He advanced to Commander of Merit and (in 1986) Chancellor of the Order in Scotland.

• Bradfield, Ray, Nigel Tranter: Scotland's Storyteller, 1999, B & W Publishing
• Pritchard, Michael; Pritchard, Alison, Tranter's Terrain, 1994, Glasgow: Neil Wilson Publishing, ISBN 1-897784-23-6