- “Legends of Vancouver” (Pauline E. Johnson (Tekahionwake), decorations by J.E.H. MacDonald, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1924)
- “Fires of Driftwood” (Isabel Eccelstone Mackay, End Papers and Frontispiece by J.E.H. MacDonald, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1922);
- “My High Horse: A Mountain Memory” (J.E.H. MacDonald, Woodchuck Press, Thornhill, 1934);
- “John Kerr” (C.K. Sissons, dust jacket illustration by Thoreau MacDonald, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1946);
- “Old Time Thornhill” (Doris M. Fitzgerald, drawings by Thoreau MacDonald, n.p., 1970);
-”House and Barn” (Drawings by Thoreau MacDonald, DM Press, Toronto, 1965); signed and dated 1965 by the artist;
- “Thoreau MacDonald, Illustrator, Design, Observer of Nature” (L. Bruce Pierce, Norflex Limited, Toronto, 1971);
- “Thoreau MacDonald: A Catalogue of Design and Illustration” (Margaret E. Edison, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1973)
