Rudyard Kipling Bibliography - Books

Books

(These are all collections of short stories except as noted.)

• The City of Dreadful Night (1885, short story)
• Departmental Ditties (1886, poetry)
• Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
• Soldiers Three (1888)
• The Story of the Gadsbys (1888)
• In Black and White (1888)
• Under the Deodars (1888)
• The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888)

This collection contained the short story The Man Who Would Be King

• Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1888)

This collection contained the short story Baa Baa, Black Sheep

• Life's Handicap (1891)
• American Notes (1891, non-fiction)
• Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, poetry)
• Many Inventions (1893)
• The Jungle Book (1894)
  • "Mowgli's Brothers" (M) (short story)
  • "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack" (poem)
  • "Kaa's Hunting" (M) (short story)
  • "Road-Song of the Bandar-Log" (poem)
  • "Tiger! Tiger!" (M) (short story)
  • "Mowgli's Song That He Sang at the Council Rock When He Danced on Shere Khan's Hide" (poem)
  • "The White Seal" (short story)
  • "Lukannon" (poem)
  • "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (short story)
  • "Darzee's Chaunt (Sung in Honour of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi)" (poem)
  • "Toomai of the Elephants" (short story)
  • "Shiv and the Grasshopper (The Song That Toomai's Mother Sang to the Baby)" (poem)
  • "Her Majesty's Servants" (originally titled "Servants of the Queen") (short story)
  • "Parade-Song of the Camp Animals" (poem)
    • (M) = Mowgli story
• The Second Jungle Book (1895)
  • "How Fear Came" (M) (short story)
  • "The Law of the Jungle" (poem)
  • "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat" (short story)
  • "A Song of Kabir" (poem)
  • "Letting In the Jungle" (M) (short story)
  • "Mowgli's Song Against People" (poem)
  • "The Undertakers" (short story)
  • "A Ripple Song" (poem)
  • "The King's Ankus" (M) (short story)
  • "The Song of the Little Hunter" (poem)
  • "Quiquern" (short story)
  • "'Angutivaun Taina'" (poem)
  • "Red Dog" (M) (short story)
  • "Chil's Song" (poem)
  • "The Spring Running" (M) (short story)
  • "The Outsong" (poem)
    • (M) = Mowgli story
• The Naulahka - A story of West and East (1892)
• The Seven Seas (1896, poetry)
• The Day's Work (1898)
• A Fleet in Being (1898)
• Stalky & Co. (1899)
• From Sea to Sea - Letters of Travel (1899, non-fiction)
• The Five Nations (1903, poetry)
• Just So Stories for Little Children (1902)
  • "How the Whale Got His Throat"
  • "How the Camel Got His Hump"
  • "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin"
  • "How the Leopard Got His Spots"
  • "The Elephant's Child"
  • "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"
  • "The Beginning of the Armadillos"
  • "How the First Letter Was Written"
  • "How the Alphabet Was Made"
  • "The Crab That Played With the Sea"
  • "The Cat That Walked by Himself"
  • "The Butterfly That Stamped"
• Traffics and Discoveries (1904, 24 collected short stories)
• With the Night Mail (1905, A Story of 2000 A.D., together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared)
• Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
• The Brushwood Boy (1907)
• Actions and Reactions (1909)
• A Song of the English (1909) with W. Heath Robinson (illustrator)
• Rewards and Fairies (1910)
• A History of England (1911, non-fiction) with Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher
• Songs from Books (1912)
• As Easy as A.B.C. (1912, Science-fiction short story)
• The Fringes of the Fleet (1915, non-fiction)
• Sea Warfare (1916, non-fiction)
• A Diversity of Creatures (1917)
• The Years Between (1919, poetry)
• Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (1923)
• The Irish Guards in the Great War (1923, non-fiction)
• Debits and Credits (1926)
• A Book of Words (1928, non-fiction)
• Thy Servant a Dog (1930)
• Limits and Renewals (1932)
• Tales of India: the Windermere Series (1935)
• Something of Myself (1937, autobiography)
• The Muse among the Motors (poetry)