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Standalone Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Standalone books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Standalone series? Start with "The Light That Failed" (1890) and follow publication order through all 46 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
The Light That Failed
1890
The Naulahka - A Story Of East And West
0
Captains Courageous
0
The Story of the Gadsbys
0
Under The Deodars
0
1901
They
1905
With the Night Mail
1909
The Man Who Would Be King
1888
The Return of Imray
0
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
0
The Cat That Walked by Himself
1902
The Maltese Cat
1988
Plain Tales from the Hills
1888
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories
0
Life's Handicap
0
Barrack-Room Ballads
0
Many Inventions
0
The Day's Work
0
Soldiers Three
0
Indian Tales
0
Just So Stories
1902
The Five Nations
1903
Traffics and Discoveries
1904
Actions and Reactions
1909
Sea Warfare
1916
A Diversity of Creatures
1917
The Eyes of Asia
1919
Rudyard Kipling's Verse
1923
The Man Who Was
1924
Debits And Credits
1926
Limits And Renewals
1932
All The Mowgli Stories
1933
Phantoms and Fantasies
1965
Complete Verse
1972
Kiplings Science Fiction
1987
The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling
1987
Kipling's Fantasy Stories
1992
The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling
1994
Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
1999
The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales
2000
The Elephant, The Hare And The Black Cobra
2003
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages
2005
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy (With: Neil Gaiman,Stephen Jones)
2008
Ten Stories
2017
The Adventures of Mowgli: Stories from the Jungle Book
2018
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