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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English writer known for his short stories, children's literature, poetry, travelogues, and science fiction. He is best recognized for his collections, including The Jungle Book and Kim, among other tales. In 1907, Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His debut work of fiction was a poetry collection titled Schoolboy Lyrics. The first of his short story collections, The Phantom 'Rickshaw, was published in 1888, followed closely by Plain Tales from the Hills in the same year. Below is a chronological list of Rudyard Kipling's books based on their original publication dates.

Rudyard Kipling became a published novelist in 1882 with the novel Poe: Poems (By: Edgar Allan Poe). Below is a list of Rudyard Kipling's books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Puck Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rewards and Fairies (1910) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of The Jungle Book Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Jungle Book (1893) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Second Jungle Book (1895) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Standalone Novels Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Light That Failed (1890) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Naulahka - A Story Of East And West (1892) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Captains Courageous (1897) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Story of the Gadsbys (1899) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Under The Deodars (1899) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Kim (1901) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
They (1905) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
With the Night Mail (1909) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Man Who Would Be King (1888) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Return of Imray (1891) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1894) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Cat That Walked by Himself (1902) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Maltese Cat (1988) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Short Story Collections Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories (1888) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Life's Handicap (1891) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Many Inventions (1893) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Day's Work (1898) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Soldiers Three (1899) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Indian Tales (1899) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Just So Stories (1902) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Five Nations (1903) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Traffics and Discoveries (1904) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Actions and Reactions (1909) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Sea Warfare (1916) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
A Diversity of Creatures (1917) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Eyes of Asia (1919) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rudyard Kipling's Verse (1923) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Man Who Was (1924) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Debits And Credits (1926) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Limits And Renewals (1932) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
All The Mowgli Stories (1933) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Phantoms and Fantasies (1965) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Complete Verse (1972) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Kiplings Science Fiction (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Complete Supernatural Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1987) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Kipling's Fantasy Stories (1992) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1994) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling (1999) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Elephant, The Hare And The Black Cobra (2003) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages (2005) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy (With: Neil Gaiman,Stephen Jones) (2008) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Ten Stories (2017) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Adventures of Mowgli: Stories from the Jungle Book (2018) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Picture Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
The Elephant's Child (1900) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
The Butterfly That Stamped (1983) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Letters of Marque (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Graphic Spin Books

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

Publication Order of The Year of the Cat Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
A Cat of Disdainful Looks (With: Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Stefon Mears,Dean Wesley Smith,Mark Twain,Ray Vukcevich,John Adams,Jodi Lyn Nye) (2020) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Poe: Poems (By: Edgar Allan Poe) (1882) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Kipling: Poems (1907) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Poetry Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems (1892) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Strange Tales (2006) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Oriental Ghost Stories (By: David Stuart Davies,Lafcadio Hearn) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories (By: David Stuart Davies) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Not Exactly Ghosts & Fires Burn Blue (By: Sir Andrew Caldecott) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Crime Scenes (By: David Stuart Davies) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer (By: David Stuart Davies) (2007) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk
Casebook of Sexton Blake (By: David Stuart Davies) (2009) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Poetry for Young People Books

Book Title Year Amazon USA Amazon UK
Rudyard Kipling (2000) Buy on Amazon.com Buy on Amazon.co.uk

Publication Order of Anthologies Books

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

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