Works

• The Coral Island 1857 (illustrated by the author) (transcription project)
• Martin Rattler: A boy's adventures in the forests of Brazil 1858 (transcription project)
• The Dog Crusoe and His Master: A story of adventure in the Western prairies 1861 (transcription project)
• The Gorilla Hunters: A tale of the wilds of Africa 1861 IA
• The Wild Man of the West 1863 (transcription project)
• The Pirate City: An Algerine tale 1874 (transcription project)

• The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in the laying of submarine electric cables 1883
• Battles with the Sea 1883
• Big Otter 1887
• Black Ivory: A tale of adventures among the slavers of East Africa 1873
• Blown to Bits; or the lonely man of Rakata, 1889
• Blue Lights: Hot work in the Soudan 1888
• The Buffalo Runners: A Tale of the Red River plains, 1891
• The Butterfly's Ball and Grasshopper's Feast 1857
• Charlie to the Rescue 1890
• Collected Works of Ensign Sopht 1881
• The Coral Island 1857
• The Coxswain's Bride 1891
• The Crew of the Water Wagtail 1889
• Deep Down: A tale of the Cornish mines 1868
• Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas 1860
• The Dog Crusoe and His Master: A story of adventure in the Western prairies 1861
• Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished: A tale of city Arab life and adventure 1884
• The Eagle Cliff 1889
• Ensign Sopht's Illustrated Volunteer Almanack 1861
• Environs and Vicinity of Edinburgh 1859
• Erling the Bold: A tale of the Norse sea kings 1869
• Fighting the Flames: A tale of the London Fire Brigade 1867
• The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands 1870
• Freaks on the Fells 1865
• The Fugitives; or, The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar 1887
• The Garret and the Garden: or, Low life high up 1890
• Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader: A tale of the Pacific 1864
• The Giant of the North; or, Pokings around the Pole 1882
• The Golden Dream: A tale of the diggings (Also subtitled, Adventures in the far west) 1861
• The Gorilla Hunters 1861
• Handbook to the New Goldfields . . . of the Fraser and Thompson River Gold Mines 1858
• The Hot Swamp 1892
• How Not to Do It A Manual for the Awkward Squad 1859
• Hudson's Bay 1848
• Hunted and Harried 1892
• In The Track of the Troops:A tale of modern war 1878
• The Iron Horse, or, Life on the line. A railway tale 1871
• The Island Queen1885
• Jarwin and Cuffy 1878
• The Kitten Pilgrims 1882
• Lakes of Killarney 1859
• The Life and Adventures of Simon Gupple 1855
• The Lifeboat: A tale of our coast heroes 1864
• Life in the Red Brigade: London fire Brigade 1873
• The Life of a Ship from Launch to Wreck 1857
• The Lighthouse: The story of a great fight between man and the sea 1865
• The Lonely Island; or, The refuge of the mutineers 1880
• The Madman and the Pirate 1883
• The Man on the Ocean 1863
• Martin Rattler: Adventures of a Boy in the Forests of Brazil 1858
• Mee-a-ow, or Good Advice to Cats and Kittens 1859
• The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine story 1888
• Mister Fox 1857
• My Doggie and I 1881
• My Mother 1857
• The Norsemen in the West: or, America before Columbus 1872
• The Northern Coasts of America 1853
• The Ocean and its Wonders 1874
• Personal Reminiscences in Book-Making 1893
• Philosopher Jack 1880
• Photographs of Edinburgh (by A. Burns) 1868
• The Pioneers 1872
• The Pirate City: An Algerine tale 1874
• Post Haste: A tale of Her Majesty's mails 1880
• The Prairie Chief 1886
• Red Eric 1861
• The Red Man's Revenge: A tale of the Red River flood 1880
• Red Rooney 1886
• Reuben's Luck 1896
• The Rivers of Ice: A tale illustrative of alpine adventure and glacier action 1875
• The Robber Kitten 1858
• The Rover of the Andes: A tale of adventure on South America, 1885
• The Settler and the Savage: A tale of peace and war in South Africa 1877
• Shifting Winds: A tough yarn 1866
• The Ships; Great Eastern and Lesser Craft 1859
• Silver Lake 1867
• Six Months at the Cape 1879
• Snowflakes and Sunbeams, or the Young Fur traders: a tale of the far north 1856
• Tales of Adventure on the Sea 1873
• Tales of Adventure by Flood, Field and Mountain 1874
• Tales of Adventure or Wild Work in Strange Places 1874
• Tales of Adventure on the Coast 1875
• Three Little Kittens 1856
• Twice Bought 1885
• Under the Waves: or, Diving in deep waters 1876
• Ungava 1858
• The Volunteer Levee 1860
• The Walrus Hunters: A romance of the realms of ice 1893
• The Wild Man of the West 1863
• The World of Ice 1860
• The Young Trawler 1884

Works about Ballantyne

• "Ballantyne, Robert Michael," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Obituary: Mr. R. M. Ballantyne," in The Times (1894)
• "The death of Mr. R. M. Ballantyne," in The Times (1894)
• "Death: Robert Michael Ballantyne," in The Times (1894)
• "Letter to the Editor: The Late Mr. R. M. Ballantyne," in The Times (1894)
• "Ballantyne, Robert Michael," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ballantyne, Robert Michael," in Dictionary of National Biography Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1901) in 3 vols.