George MacDonald Books in Order

Bringing together several of MacDonald’s Christmas stories, poems, and excerpts, this collection offers gentle, Victorian-flavoured meditations on incarnation, family, generosity, and hope, well suited for reading aloud through Advent or on winter evenings.

A companion to A Time to Harvest, this devotional offers brief daily readings culled from MacDonald’s novels and sermons, each paired with Scripture and focused on quiet, steady growth in Christlike character through ordinary days.

This modern study-and-devotional volume traces how MacDonald’s fiction, fairy tales, and sermons all circle around the same good news: that in Jesus we see what God is really like, and that surrender to that love is both demanding and deeply freeing.

A Scottish shepherd’s son is drawn into the world of fairies and dwarfs when he sets out to find the mysterious Carasoyn, a healing draught whose power can free an enchanted child and set right the damage done by a self‑willed fairy queen.

Gathering all of MacDonald’s fairy tales in one volume, this collection lets readers move from playful stories to profound allegories, tracing recurring themes of childlikeness, sacrifice, and the pursuing love that will not give up on a wayward heart.

Collected from surviving sermons and addresses, this book shows MacDonald at work as a preacher rather than a novelist, urging hearers to trust the Father revealed in Christ and to live out a costly, forgiving love in everyday life.

Organized by topic, this reference-style volume offers thousands of brief sayings and images drawn from MacDonald’s books and sermons, making it easy to sample his thought on themes such as prayer, suffering, imagination, joy, and the character of God.

Opening with the eerie Highland novella The Portent, about second sight and inherited guilt, this volume adds shorter fantasies and ghostly sketches that blend the uncanny with a hopeful vision of judgment aimed at healing rather than mere punishment.

Compiled from MacDonald’s writings, this devotional gathers selections around images of sowing, growth, and reaping, encouraging readers to cooperate with God’s work in every season and to expect a harvest of changed character and deeper love.

Arranged as short daily readings selected from MacDonald’s sermons, poems, and fiction, this volume highlights his central conviction that God’s heart is utterly good, inviting readers to trust that character enough to obey even when they do not understand.

The Wise Woman, sometimes called The Lost Princess, tells how a stern yet loving lady confronts two spoiled girls with the truth about themselves; the accompanying stories continue MacDonald’s theme that real freedom comes only through humility and obedience.

Drawing on Scottish folklore and eerie landscapes, these brief tales of wolves, haunted moors, and uncanny visitors blend ghost-story atmosphere with MacDonald’s conviction that unseen spiritual realities lie behind the mist and moonlight.

Drawn from a series of twelve sermons, this devotional work focuses on the person of Jesus—his compassion, severity, and saving purpose—and urges readers to move beyond vague admiration into an obedient, day-by-day following of his words and example.

Alongside the mystical journey of The Golden Key, this collection includes other short fantasies in which ordinary children stumble into strange countries and meet symbolic figures, each story mirroring the growth and testing of a human soul.

Two children follow a rainbow to a hidden valley and discover a golden key that leads them through forests, mountains, and the borders of death itself, in a brief but haunting fairy tale about longing, sacrifice, and the way home.

Written as a year-long sequence of short prayers and meditations, this classic devotional poem records MacDonald’s daily wrestling with fear, obedience, joy, and trust, inviting readers to walk with him through the inner landscape of faith.

Set around a grand country house called Windlestraws, this novel follows a young woman employed as a secretary who finds herself entangled in her employers’ secrets, discovering that loyalty, honesty, and love can be far weightier than social polish.

This anthology gathers many of MacDonald’s best-known fairy tales—of goblins, wise women, enchanted princesses, and mysterious strangers—offering a rich introduction to the imaginative world that helped shape later fantasy writers.

A gifted but vain Scottish minister slowly compromises his calling until scandal and inner emptiness bring him to ruin, and only a painful encounter with God’s purifying love can restore both his soul and his work.

A solitary scholar steps through a mirror into a stark, otherworldly landscape ruled by the enigmatic Lilith, where he must confront death, selfishness, and the meaning of true life in one of MacDonald’s darkest and most profound fantasies.

A young woman from a poor Highland family is haunted by a recurring dream that seems to promise both danger and hope; as love, temptation, and hardship crowd in, the dream slowly reveals what in her heart must die and what must be treasured.

Cursed at birth so that she has no gravity, a princess literally floats through life, unable to take anything seriously, until love and a terrible choice beside a dark lake teach her what it means to be weighed down—in the best sense—by compassion.

Orphaned Belorba grows up on a moorland farm with a loving but secretive uncle, only to learn that a buried crime still casts a shadow over them both; uncovering the truth becomes the only path to love, freedom, and sanity.

When a reckless young baronet’s son loses his inheritance and is cast out, his travels among servants, labourers, and the poor become an apprenticeship in humility, while conversations with the searching curate Wingfold press him toward a deeper faith.

Two longer fairy tales share this volume: one in which mischievous sprites lure children to a land where motives are laid bare, and another in which living shadows reveal their owners’ true selves, together exploring how self-will can twist—even in good people.

Adapted for younger readers, this version of Alec Forbes’s story highlights his deep friendship with Annie Anderson, following the pair through schoolroom adventures, narrow escapes, and quiet acts of courage that shape their character and faith.

A sensitive young woman, shaped by narrow religion and social expectations, must decide whether to obey her domineering guardian or follow the call of truth and love, while an unconventional minister quietly tests the spirits of everyone in her circle.

Raised by a witch so that one knows only daylight and the other only night, Photogen and Nycteris must learn to trust one another and face both light and darkness together in a richly symbolic fairy tale about fear, courage, and wholeness.

After years abroad, a struggling poet returns to his homeland burdened with wounded pride and old misunderstandings, finding that reconciling with family and neighbours may be as vital as rebuilding his work or reputation.

This concluding volume of the Highland saga draws long-standing tensions over inheritance, patriotism, and faith toward resolution, as characters must choose between clinging to old rights and embracing reconciliation and self-giving love.

Against the backdrop of the Scottish Highlands, a proud clan and an heir raised abroad struggle over land, loyalty, and conscience, as changing times force them to ask what truly belongs to them and what must be surrendered for the sake of justice.

Years after his adventure with Princess Irene, miner boy Curdie is sent by the mysterious great-grandmother to the royal city with only a strange gift in his hands and a monstrous but loyal companion, to expose courtly corruption and save the ailing king.

College-trained but still very much a Highland shepherd at heart, Donal Grant leaves home to serve as tutor in a gloomy great house steeped in legends and secrets, where his steady faith and courage slowly bring hidden sins and fears into the light.

A well-born young woman stands at a crossroads between a comfortable, worldly marriage and a path of costly integrity, while the families around her show how ambition, deceit, repentance, and grace can all reshape the course of a life.

In the title story and its companion tales, neglected or grieving children and adults encounter unexpected grace at Christmastime, discovering that love, repentance, and forgiveness can arrive in forms very different from the gifts they imagined.

In a remote Highland valley, the impoverished laird of Glenwarlock and his spirited daughter face debt, exile, and misunderstanding, learning that the only inheritance no creditor can touch is the character shaped by forgiveness, truth, and enduring love.

Plain, dutiful Mary Marston works in her father’s drapery shop and quietly loves a man above her station; as bankruptcy, broken engagements, and moral failures swirl around her, her steadfast honesty and faith become an anchor for many shaken lives.

A fuller edition of MacDonald’s poetic prayer-diary, this volume offers a verse for each day of the year, tracing his persistent struggle to bring doubt, desire, failure, and joy alike into honest conversation with God.

In this sequel to The Curate's Awakening, skeptical physician Paul Faber prides himself on hard-headed realism until love, loss, and the quiet persistence of Thomas Wingfold force him to face what he truly believes about God, suffering, and the human soul.

Mute, barefoot Gibbie escapes the city slums after his drunken father’s death and finds shelter with a humble farm family in the Highlands; his guileless, self-forgetting kindness quietly transforms the lives around him as the mystery of his birth unfolds.

When Malcolm the fisher lad discovers he is heir to the Marquisate of Lossie, he must exchange the boat for the castle and decide whether he will rule as others have done or remain a servant-hearted friend to the people of Portlossie.

Young Thomas Wingfold has taken holy orders without real belief, but a blunt skeptic and the sorrows of his parish push him into an honest, often painful search for truth that transforms both his preaching and his relationships.

Set during the English Civil War, this historical novel follows a high-spirited young woman and those around her as divided loyalties, sieges, and shifting alliances reveal the difference between party zeal and the deeper demands of conscience.

Malcolm MacPhail, an able young fisherman on the north-east Scottish coast, divides his days between the sea, his eccentric grandfather, and service to the great house above Portlossie, until long-hidden secrets about birth and title upend the village order.

Told as an autobiography, this novel follows Wilfred Cumbermede from mischievous boyhood through school, friendship, first love, and moral failure, tracing how the choices of youth slowly shape a man’s character and capacity to love.

Narrated by one of Harry Walton’s daughters, this sequel to the Marshmallows stories follows her through courtship, early marriage, and family crises, showing how grace, honesty, and sometimes painful truth-telling reshape both home and parish.

Lonely Princess Irene discovers a hidden great-grandmother in a tower room and befriends miner boy Curdie; together, and with the help of an invisible thread, they must thwart the goblins who plot revenge from their tunnels under the mountain.

In this eerie Gothic tale, a student becomes fascinated with a brilliant but heartless artist whose experiments with fear, sleepwalking, and the supernatural blur the line between art and cruelty, forcing the young man to choose between complicity and conscience.

Little Diamond, the coachman’s son, befriends the North Wind, a mysterious woman who whisks him through storms and moonlit journeys where he witnesses both tragedy and joy, slowly learning to trust a love that can look severe as well as tender.

Seeking sea air for an ailing daughter, Harry Walton moves his family to a coastal parish and records the shipwrecks, seaside walks, and searching conversations through which his children and neighbours learn to see God’s hand in storm and calm alike.

Robert Falconer grows up under the stern care of his Calvinist grandmother, clinging to music and his longing for his absent mother; his quest leads him from Scottish streets to foreign cities and toward a gentler, Christ-centred vision of God.

In bustling Victorian London, an honest young shop assistant is wrongly suspected of theft, straining his romance with gentle Mary and exposing class prejudice, until perseverance, confession, and grace untangle the web of jealousy and deceit.

This collection brings together several of MacDonald’s finest fairy stories, including adventures with weightless princesses, living shadows, and keys that open unexpected doors, offering brief but memorable journeys into a world where moral truth wears the garments of wonder.

Newly appointed vicar Harry Walton arrives in the seemingly sleepy village of Marshmallows and gradually uncovers old wrongs and hidden griefs centred on Oldcastle Hall, patiently binding the community together through visits, sermons, and quiet acts of love.

In this Scottish coming-of-age story, impulsive Alec Forbes and his steadfast friend Annie Anderson grow from mischievous children into adults, passing through illness, estrangement, and reconciliation as they learn what real loyalty and repentance look like.

Blending romance with the supernatural, this novella follows a young Highlander burdened with second sight who becomes entangled with a mysterious lady and a haunted house, where visions and forebodings press him toward a decisive, sacrificial act.

When Adela falls into a deep, listless depression, her father gathers friends to tell stories around the winter fire; the woven tales—comic, eerie, and tender—gradually draw her back toward life and show how imagination can help to heal a wounded spirit.

When student Hugh Sutherland takes a tutoring post with the devout Elginbrod family, he encounters David’s quiet strength and Margaret’s courage, then finds his own scepticism tested by love, hardship, and hints of the supernatural.

On the morning after his twenty-first birthday, Anodos steps from his bedroom into Fairy Land and wanders through forests, castles, and strange encounters with shadows and marble maidens in a dreamlike journey toward humility and self-surrender.

Gathering reflective pieces on human character and relationships, this volume turns everyday encounters between men and women into quiet sketches and meditations about honesty, humility, and the costly nature of real love.