Author:Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

As author

 * "Emancipation in the West Indies." 1862 (short work)
 * Henry D. Thoreau (1872)
 * "Care of the chronic insane in families," 1886
 * Dr. S.G. Howe, the philanthropist (1891)
 * A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy, with William Torrey Harris (1893)
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson (1895) [
 * "State care of the insane: true and false care," 1898
 * "The Walkers of Peterborough in New Hampshire": Concord, October, 1899
 * "John Brown and His Friends," 1900
 * The Personality of Thoreau (1901)
 * "Family care for the chronic insane: Miss Alice Cooke and her patients," 1902 (short work)
 * Personality of Emerson (1903)
 * New Hampshire; an epitome of popular government, 1904
 * A History of New Hampshire (1904)
 * New Hampshire Biography and Autobiography, 1905 (short work)
 * Hawthorne and his friends (1908)
 * Bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England (1842-1844), 1908
 * Recollections of Seventy Years (1909) vol 1, vol 2

Biographies

 * The genius and character of Emerson; 1885
 * The life and letters of John Brown: liberator of Kansas, and martyr of Virginia (1885)
 * The life and genius of Goethe, 1886 (ed.)
 * Memoirs of Pliny Earle, M.D. (1898)
 * Thoreau, the poet-naturalist: with memorial verses. With others. 1902
 * Michael Anagnos, 1907
 * The life of Henry David Thoreau (1917)

Anthologies

 * The writings of Henry David Thoreau. 1893
 * Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894) Index
 * Poems of Nature, by Henry David Thoreau, 1895 (ed.)
 * Poems of sixty-five years, by William Ellery Channing, (ed.) 1902
 * The Service by Henry David Thoreau, editor, 1902
 * The first and last journeys of Thoreau, 1905 (ed.) (2 vols.) Vol. 1, Vol. 2
 * The romance of Mary W. Shelley, John Howard Payne and Washington Irving, 1907
 * Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau (1907)

As contributor

 * A Memorial of George Gilman Fogg (1882) with Augustus Woodbury. (short work)
 * "The education of the Negro." With William Torrey Harris, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, 1892
 * Letters of John Paul Jones, 1905 (introductory remarks)
 * Sir Walter Raleigh by Henry David Thoreau, (1905) (introductory remarks)
 * The works of Theodore Parker (1907)
 * Letter of Maria White (Mrs. James Russell) Lowell to Sophia (Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne; with remarks by F. B. Sanborn (1912)

Works about Sanborn

 * The Homes and haunts of our elder poets, 1881