Order of Rudyard Kipling Books
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 | (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)
Publication Order of The Year of the Cat Books
| A Cat of a Different Color | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Perfect Taste | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Disdainful Looks | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Strange Lands | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Cozy Situations | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Space and Time | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Heroic Heart | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Roving Nature | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Artistic Sensibilities | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Fantastic Whims | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Feral Instincts | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Cat of Romantic Soul | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural Books
(with David Stuart Davies, Lafcadio Hearn, Sir Andrew Caldecott)
| Strange Tales | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Oriental Ghost Stories | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Not Exactly Ghosts & Fires Burn Blue | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Crime Scenes | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Casebook of Sexton Blake | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Poetry for Young People Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
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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.
