| British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914 PD McDonald Cambridge University Press, 2002 | 355 | 2002 |
| The literature police: Apartheid censorship and its cultural consequences PD McDonald Oxford University Press, 2010 | 319 | 2010 |
| Making Meaning:" Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays DF McKenzie, PD McDonald, MF Suarez (No Title), 2002 | 288 | 2002 |
| Mistaken identities: poetry and Northern Ireland P McDonald Oxford University Press, 1997 | 167 | 1997 |
| Disgrace effects PD McDonald Interventions 4 (3), 321-330, 2002 | 109 | 2002 |
| Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill P McDonald OUP Oxford, 2002 | 100 | 2002 |
| Ideas of the book and histories of literature: after theory? PD McDonald pmla 121 (1), 214-228, 2006 | 79 | 2006 |
| Worlding through Play: Alternate Reality Games, Large-Scale Learning, and" The Source". P Jagoda, M Gilliam, P McDonald, C Russell American Journal of Play 8 (1), 74-100, 2015 | 49 | 2015 |
| Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing PD McDonald Oxford University Press, 2017 | 47 | 2017 |
| Implicit structures and explicit interactions: Pierre Bourdieu and the history of the book PD McDonald The Library 6 (2), 105-121, 1997 | 44 | 1997 |
| The writer, the critic, and the censor: JM Coetzee and the question of literature PD McDonald Book History 7 (1), 285-302, 2004 | 36 | 2004 |
| The Ethics of Reading and the Question of the Novel: The Challenge of J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year PD McDonald Novel: A Forum on Fiction 43 (3), 483-499, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Thinking Interculturally: Amartya Sen's Lovers Revisited PD McDonald Interventions 13 (3), 367-385, 2011 | 31 | 2011 |
| Modernist Publishing:“Nomads and Mapmakers” PD McDonald A Concise Companion to Modernism, 221-242, 2003 | 28 | 2003 |
| " Homo Ludens": A Renewed Reading. P McDonald American Journal of Play 11 (2), 247-267, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
| Old Phrases and Great Obscenities: The Strange Afterlife of Two Victorian Anxieties PD McDonald Journal of Victorian Culture 13 (2), 294-302, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
| The Book in South Africa PD McDonald na, 2012 | 15 | 2012 |
| The Adventures of the Literary Agent: Conan Doyle, AP Watt, Holmes, and the Strand in 1891 PD McDonald Victorian Periodicals Review 30 (1), 17-26, 1997 | 15 | 1997 |
| Light Reading and the Dignity of Letters: George Newnes, Ltd., and the Making of Arthur Conan Doyle PD McDonald British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice 1880–1914, 118-71, 1997 | 15 | 1997 |
| Game mechanics, experience design, and affective play P Jagoda, P McDonald The Routledge companion to media studies and digital humanities, 174-182, 2018 | 14 | 2018 |
