Traditional Songs of Her Kentucky Mountain Family (1952)
Kentucky Mountains Songs (1954)
Field Trip (1954)
Courting Songs (1954)
Shivaree (1955)
The Singing Family of the Cumberlands (1955)
Children's Songs & Games from the Southern Mountains (1956)
Songs from Kentucky (1956)
American Folk Tales and Songs (1956)
Saturday Night and Sunday Too (1956)
The Ritchie Family of Kentucky (1958)
Riddle Me This (1959) (with Oscar Brand)
Carols for All Seasons (1959)
British Traditional Ballads, Vol 1 (1961)
British Traditional Ballads, Vol 2 (1961)
Ballads (2003; vol 1 and 2 above, issued on a single CD)
Ballads from Her Appalachian Family Tradition (1961)
Precious Memories (1962)
The Appalachian Dulcimer: An Instructional Record (1963)
Jean Ritchie and Doc Watson Live at Folk City (1963)
Time For Singing (1966)
Marching Across the Green Grass & Other American Children's Game Songs (1968)
Clear Waters Remembered (1974)
Jean Ritchie At Home (1974)
None But One (1977)
Christmas Revels. Wassail! Wassail! (1982)
O Love Is Teasin' (1985)
Kentucky Christmas, Old and New (1987)
The Most Dulcimer (1992)
Mountain Born (1995)
High Hills and Mountains (1996)
Childhood Songs (1997)
Legends of Old time Music (2002, DVD)
Ritchie, Jean (1955). Singing family of the Cumberlands. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Nova Iorque: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-8131-0186-6. LCCN55005554
Ritchie, Jean (1963). The dulcimer book; being a book about the three-stringed Appalachian dulcimer, including some ways of tuning and playing; some recollections in its local history in Perry and Knott Counties, Kentucky. Nova Iorque: Oak Music. LCCN63020754
Ritchie, Jean (1965). Apple seeds and soda straws. illustrated by Don Bolognese. Nova Iorque: H.Z. Walck. LCCN65013223
Ritchie, Jean, ed. (1953). A garland of mountain song; songs from the repertoire of the Ritchie family of Viper, Kentucky New ed. Nova Iorque: Broadcast Music. LCCNm53001732