Standalone Books in Order

139

Books

1975

First Book

2023

Latest Book

49

Years

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: January 2026

Publication Order

1

Man Eater of Manjari

1975

2

Love Is A Sad Song

1976

3

The Hidden Pool

1978

4

Cricket for the Crocodile

1986

5

Maharani

2012

6

The Chakrata Cat

2017

7

Till the Clouds Roll By

2017

8

Owls in the Family

2018

9

The Tunnel

2021

10

My Father’s Last Letter

2023

11

A Flight of Pigeons

1980

12

The Eyes of the Eagle

1987

13

Grandfathers Private Zoo

1989

14

Hanuman to the Rescue

1993

15

Delhi Is Not Far

1994

16

Leopard on the Mountain

1998

17

A Handful of Nuts

2009

18

The Sensualist

2009

19

Susanna's Seven Husbands

2011

20

A Long Walk for Bina

2012

21

Romi and the Wild Fire

2013

22

The World Outside My Window

2016

23

The Laughing Skull

2016

24

The Lagoon

2017

25

A Mussoorie Mystery

2017

26

Legends of the Hill

2021

27

Boys Will Be Boys

2021

28

And Girls Will Be Girls

2021

29

My School on the Hill

2022

30

Listen to Your Heart

2022

31

The Garden of Dreams

2022

32

Panther's Moon / Ranji's Wonderful Bat

1969

33

Tales Told At Twilight

1970

34

It Isn't Time That's Passing

1972

35

The Road To The Bazaar

1980

36

Tales and Legends from India

1982

37

The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories

1988

38

Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories

1989

39

Dust on the Mountain

1990

40

Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra

1992

41

Snake Trouble / Ghost Trouble

1992

42

An Island Of Trees

1992

43

Rain in the Mountains

1993

44

Strangers In The Night

1994

45

A Bond With The Mountains

1998

46

Collected Fiction

1999

47

A Season Of Ghosts

2000

48

Ruskin Bond's Treasury Of Stories For Children

2000

49

When Darkness Falls and Other Stories

2001

50

Treasury Of Stories For Children

2001

51

The Best of Ruskin Bond

2003

52

Friends in Small Places

2003

53

A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings

2004

54

Ruskin Bond's Book Of Nature

2004

55

Too Much Trouble

2006

56

Of Birds and Beasts

2006

57

Ruskin Bond's Book Of Verse

2007

58

Potpourri

2007

59

Ruskin Bond's Book of Humour

2008

60

The Parrot Who Wouldn't Talk And Other Stories

2008

61

The Room of Many Colours

2009

62

School Days

2010

63

When the Tiger was the King

2010

64

Mr. Oliver's Diary

2010

65

Escape From Java & Other Tales Of Danger

2010

66

Crazy Times with Uncle Ken

2011

67

The Kitemaker

2011

68

Stories Short & Sweet

2011

69

The Kashmiri Storyteller

2011

70

Secrets

2011

71

At School With Ruskin Bond

2011

72

Hip-Hop Nature Boy And Other Poems

2012

73

No Man is an Island

2013

74

The children's companion

2013

75

Thick as Thieves

2013

76

Tales of Fosterganj

2014

77

The Writer on the Hill

2014

78

Uncles, Aunts and Elephants

2014

79

Falling in Love Again

2014

80

A Garland of Memories

2014

81

The Whistling Schoolboy

2015

82

A Gathering of Friends

2015

83

The Essential Collection for Young Readers

2015

84

Panther's Moon and Other Stories

2015

85

The Big Book of Animal Stories

2015

86

The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life

2015

87

The Box of Many Colours

2015

88

Upon an Old Wall Dreaming

2016

89

Collected Short Stories

2016

90

Time Stops at Shamli

2016

91

Room On The Roof; Vagrants In The Valley

2016

92

The Prospect of Flowers

2016

93

The White Tiger and Other Stories

2016

94

Whispers in the Dark

2016

95

Death Under the Deodars

2016

96

A Song of Many Rivers

2016

97

My Favourite Nature Stories

2016

98

Monkey Trouble

2016

99

The Empty House

2016

100

White Clouds, Green Mountains

2016

101

The Beast Tamer

2016

102

Party Time in Mussoorie

2016

103

Small Towns, Big Stories

2017

104

Voting at Fosterganj

2017

105

Who Kissed Me in the Dark

2017

106

The Kipling Road

2017

107

The Elephant and the Cassowary

2017

108

The Wise Parrot

2017

109

The Regimental Myna

2017

110

Children of India

2017

111

Eyes of the Cat

2017

112

The Man Who Was Kipling

2017

113

When the Clock Strikes Thirteen

2017

114

When The Night Falls

2017

115

Unhurried Tales

2017

116

I Was the Wind Last Night

2017

117

Animal Stories

2017

118

Tales To Make You Smile

2017

119

Great Stories for Children

2017

120

Tigers for Dinner

2017

121

The Beast With Five Fingures

2018

122

A Bouquet Of Love

2018

123

The Great Train Journey

2018

124

Landour Bazaar

2018

125

Roads To Mussoorie

2018

126

Captain Young's Ghost

2018

127

The Daffodil Case

2018

128

Tiger in the Tunnel

2019

129

A Gallery of Rascals

2019

130

Words from My Window

2019

131

Boyhood Dreams And Other Tales

2019

132

Braving Mussoorie's Madding Crowd

2020

133

Miracle At Happy Bazaar

2020

134

The Trees Of Dehra

2020

135

All-Time Favourites for Children

2021

136

The Shadow on the Wall

2021

137

All Creatures Great and Small

2022

138

25 Greatest Stories for Young Readers

2023

139

My India, Longing and Belonging

2023

Frequently Asked Questions

The recommended reading order for the Standalone series is publication order: 1. Man Eater of Manjari (1975), 2. Love Is A Sad Song (1976), 3. The Hidden Pool (1978), 4. Cricket for the Crocodile (1986), 5. Maharani (2012), and 134 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.

The Standalone series by Ruskin Bond contains 139 books. The series began in 1975 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.

The Standalone series is written by Ruskin Bond. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.

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