Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author of short stories, children’s literature, poetry, travelogues and science fiction. He is most famous for his short story collection The Jungle Book, Kim and several other stories. Kipling would receive a Noble Prize for Literature in 1907.

Rudyard Kipling’s first work of published fiction was a poetry collection called Schoolboy Lyrics. His first collection of short stories was The Phantom ‘Rickshaw in 1888, followed quickly by Plain Tales from the Hills that same year. Below is a list of Rudyard Kipling’s books in order of when they were originally published:

Publication Order of Puck Books

Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rewards and Fairies (1910)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Jungle Book Books

The Jungle Book (1893)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Second Jungle Book (1895)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Light That Failed (1890)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Naulahka - A Story Of East And West (1892)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Captains Courageous (1897)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Story of the Gadsbys (1899)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Under The Deodars (1899)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kim (1901)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
They (1905)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
With the Night Mail (1909)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

The Man Who Would Be King (1888)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Return of Imray (1891)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1894)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cat That Walked by Himself (1902)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories (1888)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Life's Handicap (1891)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Barrack-Room Ballads (1893)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Many Inventions (1893)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Soldiers Three (1899)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Indian Tales (1899)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Just So Stories (1902)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Five Nations (1903)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Traffics and Discoveries (1904)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kipling Poems (1907)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Day's Work (1908)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Actions and Reactions (1909)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sea Warfare (1916)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Diversity of Creatures (1917)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Eyes of Asia (1919)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1923)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man Who Was (1924)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Debits And Credits (1926)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Limits And Renewals (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All The Mowgli Stories (1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Phantoms and Fantasies (1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Complete Verse (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kiplings Science Fiction (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kipling's Fantasy Stories (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Elephant, The Hare And The Black Cobra (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy (With: Neil Gaiman,Stephen Jones) (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ten Stories (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Adventures of Mowgli: Stories from the Jungle Book (2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Picture Books

The Elephant's Child (1900)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Letters of Marque (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Graphic Spin Books

(with Martin Powell, Gerardo Sandoval, Louise Simonson, Lisa Trumbauer, Blake Hoena, Scott Sonneborn, Michael Dahl, Stephanie True Peters, Donald Lemke, Beth Bracken, Sean Tulien)

Red Riding Hood (By: Martin Powell) (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cinderella (By: Beth Bracken) (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jack and the Beanstalk (By: Blake Hoena) (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hansel and Gretel (By: Donald Lemke) (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beauty and the Beast (By: Michael Dahl) (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Snow White (By: Martin Powell) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rumpelstiltskin (By: Martin Powell) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sleeping Beauty (By: Martin Powell) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Three Little Pigs (By: Lisa Trumbauer) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rapunzel: The Graphic Novel (By: Stephanie True Peters) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ugly Duckling (By: Martin Powell) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Princess and the Pea (By: Stephanie True Peters) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Emperor's New Clothes (By: Stephanie True Peters) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thumbelina (By: Martin Powell,Gerardo Sandoval) (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan (By: Martin Powell) (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
John Henry, Hammerin' Hero (By: Stephanie True Peters) (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pecos Bill, Colossal Cowboy (By: Sean Tulien) (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Legend of Johnny Appleseed (By: Martin Powell) (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Bremen Town Musicians (By: Louise Simonson) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Golden Goose (By: Sean Tulien) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tom Thumb (By: Scott Sonneborn) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Elves and the Shoemaker (By: Martin Powell) (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How the Leopard Got His Spots (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How the Camel Got His Hump (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How the Elephant Got His Trunk (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Comics (With: Martin Powell,Louise Simonson,Blake Hoena,Pedro Rodríguez,Sean Tulien) (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tall (By: Martin Powell) (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Year of the Cat Books

A Cat of a Different Color (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Annie Reed,Louisa Swann,Lisa Silverthorne,Dean Wesley Smith,Ray Vukcevich,Dory Crowe) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Cat of Perfect Taste (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Dean Wesley Smith) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Cat of Disdainful Looks (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Mark Twain,Ray Vukcevich,John Adams,Jodi Lyn Nye) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Cat of Strange Lands (By: Dean Wesley Smith) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Cat of Cozy Situations (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Dean Wesley Smith) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Cat of Heroic Heart (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Carole Nelson Douglas,E. Nesbit,Jamie Ferguson,Lisa Silverthorne,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Liz Pierce) (2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Henry Slesar,Joan Aiken,Annie Reed,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Mary Turzillo) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Cat of Fantastic Whims (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,E. Nesbit,Jamie Ferguson,Annie Reed,Lisa Silverthorne,Dean Wesley Smith,Geoffrey A. Landis,Liz Pierce) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Cat of Feral Instincts (By: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Arthur Conan Doyle,Edgar Allan Poe,Brigid Collins,Dean Wesley Smith,Pamela Sargent,Jamie McNabb,Mary Turzillo,N. Margaret Campbell) (2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

50 Great Short Stories(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A St. Nicholas Anthology(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mysterious Sea Stories(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Famous and Curious Animal Stories(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of the Occult(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Amis Story Anthology(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fantasy Stories(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Anthology of Love and Romance(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Spellbound(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Time Machines(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dark(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
On Glorious Wings(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The World's Greatest Horror Stories(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Little Big Book of California(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Empire Tales(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stories to Get You Through the Night(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
50 Classic Novellas(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Phantom Coach(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
That Glimpse of Truth(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Red Sky(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Writers: Their Lives and Works(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Occult Fiction Collection(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Cat of Disdainful Looks(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Classic Cat Stories(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Notes: Naulahka was co-authored by Wolcott Balestier. Life’s Handicap was also published as Mine Own People. The Elephant, the Hare and the Black Cobra was co-authored by Linda Newbery and Martin S. Waddell. Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages was co-authored by Ella D’Arcy, George Gissing and Arthur Morrison.

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