1870s
- An Inland Voyage (1878)
- Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878)
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)
- "The Story of a Lie" (1879)
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)
- New Arabian Nights (1882)
- Treasure Island (1883)
- The Silverado Squatters (1884)
- "The Body Snatcher" (1884)
- A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
- More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (with Fanny Stevenson, 1885)
- Prince Otto (1885)
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
- Kidnapped (1886)
- The Merry Men (1887)
- Memories and Portraits (1887)
- "The Misadventures of John Nicholson" (1887)
- Underwoods (1887)
- The Black Arrow (1888)
- Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1888)
- The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
- The Wrong Box (with Lloyd, 1889)