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Rudyard Kipling Books in Order
Rudyard Kipling is a renowned journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. His works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, such as The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems encompass Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). As a major innovator in the short story, Kipling's children's books are classics of children's literature, showcasing a versatile and luminous narrative gift. He is celebrated as one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kipling's exceptional talent has been praised by notable critics, including Henry James, who described him as the most complete man of genius. In 1907, at 41, Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date.
Bibliography verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What are all of Rudyard Kipling's book series? Rudyard Kipling has written 10 book series. The most notable is the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Rudyard Kipling
- #1
Herbert: Poems (By: )(1671) - #2
Wordsworth: Poems (By: William Wordsworth) - #3
Byron: Poems (By: Lord Byron) - #4
Keats: Poems (By: John Keats) - #5
Blake: Poems (By: William Blake) - #6
Coleridge: Poems (By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge) - #7
Poe: Poems (By: Edgar Allan Poe) - #8
Tennyson: Poems (By: Alfred Tennyson) - #9
Kipling: Poems(1907) - #10
Milton: Poems (By: John Milton)(1936) - #11
Baudelaire: Poems (By: Charles Baudelaire)(1942) - #12
Eliot: Poems (By: T.S. Eliot)(1955) - #13
Shakespeare: Poems (By: William Shakespeare)(1958) - #14
Hardy: Poems (By: Thomas Hardy)(1977) - #15
Shelley: Poems (By: Percy Bysshe Shelley)(1993) - #16
Rossetti: Poems (By: Christina Rossetti)(1993) - #17
Donne: Poems (By: John Donne)(1995) - #18
Browning: Poems (By: Robert Browning,Elizabeth Barrett Browning)(1997) - #19
Frost: Poems (By: Robert Frost)(1997) - #20
Marvell: Poems (By: )(2004) - #21
Emerson: Poems (By: Ralph Waldo Emerson)(2004) - #22
Burns: Poems (By: Robert Burns)(2006) - #23
Mozart: Letters (By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)(2007) - #24
Robinson: Poems (By: Edwin Arlington Robinson)(2007) - #25
Millay: Poems (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)(2010) - #26
The Best of Archy and Mehitabel (By: Don Marquis)(2011) - #27
Rumi: Poems (By: Jalaluddin Rumi)(2019) - #28
Cold Mountain Poems (By: Hanshan)(2024)
- #1
Red Riding Hood (By: Martin Powell)(2008) - #2
Cinderella (By: Beth Bracken)(2008) - #3
Jack and the Beanstalk (By: Blake Hoena)(2008) - #4
Hansel and Gretel (By: Donald Lemke)(2008) - #5
Beauty and the Beast (By: Michael Dahl)(2008) - #6
Snow White (By: Martin Powell)(2009) - #7
Rumpelstiltskin (By: Martin Powell)(2009) - #8
Sleeping Beauty (By: Martin Powell)(2009) - #9
The Three Little Pigs (By: Lisa Trumbauer)(2009) - #10
Rapunzel: The Graphic Novel (By: Stephanie True Peters)(2009) - #11
The Ugly Duckling (By: Martin Powell)(2009) - #12
The Princess and the Pea (By: Stephanie True Peters)(2009) - #13
The Emperor's New Clothes (By: Stephanie True Peters)(2009) - #14
Thumbelina (By: Martin Powell,Gerardo Sandoval)(2009) - #15
The Tall Tale of Paul Bunyan (By: Martin Powell)(2010) - #16
John Henry, Hammerin' Hero (By: Stephanie True Peters)(2010) - #17
Pecos Bill, Colossal Cowboy (By: Sean Tulien)(2010) - #18
The Legend of Johnny Appleseed (By: Martin Powell)(2010) - #19
The Bremen Town Musicians (By: Louise Simonson)(2011) - #20
The Golden Goose (By: Sean Tulien)(2011) - #21
Tom Thumb (By: Scott Sonneborn)(2011) - #22
The Elves and the Shoemaker (By: Martin Powell)(2011) - #23
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin(2012) - #24
How the Leopard Got His Spots(2012) - #25
How the Camel Got His Hump(2012) - #26
How the Elephant Got His Trunk(2012) - #27
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Comics (With: Martin Powell,Louise Simonson,Blake Hoena,Pedro Rodríguez,Sean Tulien)(2013) - #28
Tall (By: Martin Powell)(2014)
- #1
Letters of Marque(2009)
- #1
The Elephant's Child(1900) - #2
The Butterfly That Stamped(1983)
- #1
Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems(1892)
- #1
Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)(1977) - #2
Robert Frost (By: Robert Frost)(1994) - #3
Emily Dickinson (By: Emily Dickinson)(1994) - #4
Edgar Allan Poe (By: Edgar Allan Poe)(1995) - #5
Carl Sandburg (By: Carl Sandburg)(1995) - #6
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)(1998) - #7
Edna St. Vincent Millay (By: Edna St. Vincent Millay)(1999) - #8
Robert Louis Stevenson (By: Robert Louis Stevenson)(2000) - #9
William Shakespeare (By: William Shakespeare)(2000) - #10
Lewis Carroll (By: Lewis Carroll)(2000) - #11
Rudyard Kipling(2000) - #12
Edward Lear (By: Edward Lear)(2001) - #13
American Poetry (By: John Hollander)(2002) - #14
William Butler Yeats (By: W.B. Yeats)(2002) - #15
Robert Browning (By: Robert Browning)(2003) - #16Samuel Taylor Coleridge (By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge)(2003)
- #17
William Wordsworth (By: William Wordsworth)(2003) - #18
Alfred Tennyson (By: Alfred Tennyson)(2003) - #19
William Carlos Williams (By: William Carlos Williams)(2003) - #20
Animal Poems (By: John Hollander)(2004) - #21
Wallace Stevens (By: Wallace Stevens)(2004) - #22
The Seasons (By: John N. Serio)(2004) - #23
Langston Hughes (By: Langston Hughes)(2006) - #24
William Blake (By: William Blake)(2007) - #25
Poetry for Young People (By: Maya Angelou)(2007) - #26
Poetry for Young People: Carl Sandburg (By: Carl Sandburg)(2008) - #27
African American Poetry (By: Karen Barbour)(2013) - #28
Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman (By: Walt Whitman)(2017) - #29
50 Great Short Stories(1952) - #30
A St. Nicholas Anthology(1969) - #31
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories(1984) - #32Mysterious Sea Stories(1987)
- #33
Famous and Curious Animal Stories(1989) - #34
A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling(1989) - #35
Tales of the Occult(1989) - #36
The Amis Story Anthology(1992) - #37
H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror(1993) - #38
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories(1993) - #39
Fantasy Stories(1994) - #40
The Anthology of Love and Romance(1994) - #41
Spellbound(1995) - #42
100 Best-Loved Poems(1995) - #43
World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others(1997) - #44
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories(1997) - #45
Time Machines(1997) - #46
A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories(2000) - #47
Dark(2000) - #48
On Glorious Wings(2003) - #49
The World's Greatest Horror Stories(2004) - #50
The Little Big Book of California(2005) - #51
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural(2006) - #52
Rotten English(2007) - #53
Empire Tales(2008) - #54
Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction(2008) - #55
Stories to Get You Through the Night(2010) - #56
50 Classic Novellas(2011) - #57
The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure(2011) - #58
The Phantom Coach(2014) - #59
That Glimpse of Truth(2014) - #60
Red Sky(2014) - #61
The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories(2015) - #62
Writers: Their Lives and Works(2018) - #63
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die(2019) - #64
A Cat of Disdainful Looks(2020) - #65
Classic Cat Stories(2020)
- #1
Puck of Pook's Hill(1906) - #2
Rewards and Fairies(1910)
- #1
The Light That Failed(1890) - #2
The Naulahka - A Story Of East And West - #3
Captains Courageous - #4
The Story of the Gadsbys - #5
Under The Deodars - #6
Kim(1901) - #7
They(1905) - #8
With the Night Mail(1909) - #9
The Man Who Would Be King(1888) - #10
The Return of Imray - #11
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - #12
The Cat That Walked by Himself(1902) - #13The Maltese Cat(1988)
- #14
Plain Tales from the Hills(1888) - #15
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories - #16
Life's Handicap - #17
Barrack-Room Ballads - #18
Many Inventions - #19
The Day's Work - #20
Soldiers Three - #21
Indian Tales - #22
Just So Stories(1902) - #23
The Five Nations(1903) - #24
Traffics and Discoveries(1904) - #25
Actions and Reactions(1909) - #26
Sea Warfare(1916) - #27
A Diversity of Creatures(1917) - #28
The Eyes of Asia(1919) - #29
Rudyard Kipling's Verse(1923) - #30
The Man Who Was(1924) - #31
Debits And Credits(1926) - #32
Limits And Renewals(1932) - #33
All The Mowgli Stories(1933) - #34
Phantoms and Fantasies(1965) - #35
Complete Verse(1972) - #36
Kiplings Science Fiction(1987) - #37
The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling(1987) - #38
Kipling's Fantasy Stories(1992) - #39
The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling(1994) - #40
Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling(1999) - #41
The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales(2000) - #42
The Elephant, The Hare And The Black Cobra(2003) - #43
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages(2005) - #44
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy (With: Neil Gaiman,Stephen Jones)(2008) - #45
Ten Stories(2017) - #46
The Adventures of Mowgli: Stories from the Jungle Book(2018)
- #1
Strange Tales(2006) - #2
Oriental Ghost Stories (By: David Stuart Davies,Lafcadio Hearn)(2007) - #3
Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories (By: David Stuart Davies)(2007) - #4
Not Exactly Ghosts & Fires Burn Blue (By: Sir Andrew Caldecott)(2007) - #5
Crime Scenes (By: David Stuart Davies)(2007) - #6
Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer (By: David Stuart Davies)(2007) - #7
Casebook of Sexton Blake (By: David Stuart Davies)(2009)
- #1
The Jungle Book(1893) - #2
The Second Jungle Book
About Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling is a renowned journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. His works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, such as The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems encompass Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If— (1910). As a major innovator in the short story, Kipling's children's books are classics of children's literature, showcasing a versatile and luminous narrative gift. He is celebrated as one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kipling's exceptional talent has been praised by notable critics, including Henry James, who described him as the most complete man of genius. In 1907, at 41, Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date.
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