Entre los libros de historia natural de Gosse se encuentran "Canadian Naturalist" (1840), "The Ocean" (1844), "Birds of Jamaica" (1847), "Naturalists Sojourn in Jamaica" (1851), "Aquarium" (1854), "A Manual of Marine Zoology" (1855-56), "Evenings at the Microscope" (1859), "A history of the British sea-anemones and corals" (1860), "The Romance of natural history" (1860), and "The Great Atlas Moth of Asia" (1879).