This is a bibliography of works by Rudyard Kipling, including books, short stories, poems, and collections of his works.^[1][2]

Books

(These are short story collections except as noted. Listed by year of publication.)

• The City of Dreadful Night (1885), short story^[1] – later published as The City of the Dreadful Night in Little Blue Book No. 357
• Departmental Ditties (1886), poetry
• Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
  • "Lispeth" (short story)
  • "Three and - an Extra" (short story)
  • "Thrown Away" (short story)
  • "Miss Youghal's Sais" (short story)
  • "'Yoked with an Unbeliever'" (short story)
  • "False Dawn" (short story)
  • "The Rescue of Pluffles" (short story)
  • "Cupid's Arrows" (short story)
  • "The Three Musketeers" (short story)
  • "His Chance in Life" (short story)
  • "Watches of the Night" (short story)
  • "The Other Man" (short story)
  • "Consequences" (short story)
  • "The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin" (short story)
  • "The Taking of Lungtungpen" (short story)
  • "A Germ-Destroyer" (short story)
  • "Kidnapped" (short story)
  • "The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly" (short story)
  • "In the House of Suddhoo" (short story)
  • "His Wedded Wife" (short story)
  • "The Broken-link Handicap" (short story)
  • "Beyond the Pale" (short story)
  • "In Error" (short story)
  • "A Bank Fraud" (short story)
  • "Tod's Amendment" (short story)
  • "The Daughter of the Regiment" (short story)
  • "In the Pride of his Youth" (short story)
  • "Pig" (short story)
  • "The Rout of the White Hussars" (short story)
  • "The Bronckhorst Divorce-case" (short story)
  • "Venus Annodomini" (short story)
  • "The Bisara of Pooree" (short story)
  • "A Friend's Friend" (short story)
  • "The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows" (short story)
  • "The Madness of Private Ortheris" (short story)
  • "The Story of Muhammad Din" (short story)
  • "On the Strength of a Likeness" (short story)
  • "Wressley of the Foreign Office" (short story)
  • "By Word of Mouth" (short story)
  • "To be Filed for Reference" (short story)
• 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) – including "The Man Who Would Be King"
• Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1888) – including "Baa Baa, Black Sheep"
• American Notes (1891), non-fiction
• Letters of Marque (1891)
• The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places (1891) – A.H. Wheeler & Co (Indian Railway Library #14)
• Mine Own People (John W. Lovell Company, New York City, NY, March 1891)^[3][4]
  • Introduction by Henry James^[5]
  • "Bimi" (later re-published as "Bertran and Bimi"^[6])
  • "Namgay Doola"
  • "The Recrudescence of Imray" (later re-published as "The Return of Imray"^[7])
  • "Moti Guj -- Mutineer"
  • "The Mutiny of the Mavericks"
  • "At the End of the Passage"
  • "The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney"
  • "The Courting of Dinah Shadd"
  • "The Man Who Was"
  • "A Conference of the Powers"
  • "On Greenhow Hill"
  • "Without Benefit of Clergy"^[8]
• Life's Handicap (MacMillan and Co., London, August 1891)^[9][10]
  • "The Lang Men o' Larut"
  • "Reingelder and the German Flag"
  • "The Wandering Jew"
  • "Through the Fire"
  • "The Finances of the Gods"
  • "The Amir's Homily"
  • "Jews in Shushan"
  • "The Limitations of Pambé Serang"
  • "Little Tobrah"
  • "Bubbling Well Road"
  • "'The City of Dreadful Night'"
  • "Georgie Porgie"
  • "Naboth"
  • "The Dream of Duncan Parrenness"
  • "The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney"
  • "The Courting of Dinah Shadd"
  • "On Greenhow Hill"
  • "The Man Who Was"
  • "The Head of the District"
  • "Without Benefit of Clergy"^[11]
  • "At the End of the Passage"
  • "The Mutiny of the Mavericks"
  • "The Mark of the Beast"
  • "The Recrudescence of Imray" (later re-published as "The Return of Imray"^[12])
  • "Namgay Doola"
  • "Bimi" (later re-published as "Bertran and Bimi"^[13])
  • "Moti Guj -- Mutineer"
  • "L'envoi"
• Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), poetry
• Many Inventions (1893)
• The Jungle Book (1894) – including Mowgli stories, here marked "(M)":
  • "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" (short story) – originally titled "Servants of the Queen"
  • "Parade-Song of the Camp Animals" (poem)
• The Second Jungle Book (1895) – including Mowgli stories, here marked "(M)":
  • "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)
• The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (1892)
• The Seven Seas (1896), poetry
• The Day's Work (1898)
• A Fleet in Being (1898)
• The Brushwood Boy (1899), story from 1895, illus. Orson Lowell; US only?
• Stalky & Co. (1899)
• From Sea to Sea and Other Sketches, Letters of Travel (1899), non-fiction
• Just So Stories for Little Children (1902)
  • "How the Whale Got His Throat" – First published in St Nicholas Magazine, December 1897, as "How the Whale Got His Tiny Throat"^[14]
  • "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"
  • "The Tabu Tale" (published in the US in 1903)
• The Five Nations (1903), poetry
• Traffics and Discoveries (1904), 12 stories
• With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. Available online (1905) – "(Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared)"
• They (1905), story from Traffics and Discoveries
• Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
• The Brushwood Boy (1907), 1895 story, illus. F. H. Townsend; UK and US
• 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, Rand McNally, 1935), illus. Paul Strayer
• Something of Myself (1937), autobiography
• The Muse Among the Motors (1904, 1919, 1929), poetry – unknown first publication as a whole

Novels

• The Light that Failed (1891)
• The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (1892) (with Wolcott Balestier)
• Captains Courageous (1896)
• Kim (1901)

Collections

Some of Kipling's works were collected by him; some others were collected by publishers of "unauthorised" editions (Abaft the Funnel, From Sea to Sea, for example). Still others of his works were never collected. The lists given below include all the collections that Kipling acknowledged as his own work. However, it is possible to find other works that appeared in American but not English editions, works that only appeared in an original periodical publication, and some others that only appeared in the Sussex and Burwash editions.

Autobiographies and speeches

• Independence. Rectorial Address Delivered at St. Andrews, October 10, 1923
• A Book of Words (1928)
• Something of Myself (1937)
• Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words (2008), ed. Thomas Pinney, ELT Press

Short story collections

• Quartette (1885) – with his father, mother, and sister
• Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
• Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White (1888)
• The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888)
• Under the Deodars (1888)
• Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1888)
• Mine Own People (1891)
• Life's Handicap (1891)
• Many Inventions (1893)
• The Jungle Book (1894)
• The Second Jungle Book (1895)
• The Day's Work (1898)
• Stalky & Co. (1899)
• Just So Stories (1902)
• Traffics and Discoveries (1904)
• Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) – children's historical fantasy short stories
• Actions and Reactions (1909)
• Abaft the Funnel (1909)
• Rewards and Fairies (1910) – historical fantasy short stories
• The Eyes of Asia (1917)
• A Diversity of Creatures (1917)
• Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (1923)
• Debits and Credits (1926)
• Thy Servant a Dog (1930)
• Limits and Renewals (1932)

Military collections

• A Fleet in Being (1898)
• France at War (1915)
• The New Army in Training (1915)
• Sea Warfare (1916)
• The War in the Mountains (1917)
• The Graves of the Fallen (1919)
• The Irish Guards in the Great War (1923)

Poetry collections

• Schoolboy Lyrics (1881)
• Echoes (1884) – with his sister, Alice (‘Trix’)
• Departmental Ditties (1886)
• Barrack-Room Ballads (1890)
• The Seven Seas (1896)
• An Almanac of Twelve Sports (1898, with illustrations by William Nicholson)
• The Five Nations (1903)
• Collected Verse (1907)
• Songs from Books (1912)
• The Years Between (1919)
• Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition (1940)

Travel collections

• From Sea to Sea – Letters of Travel: 1887–1889 (1899)
• Letters of Travel: 1892–1913 (1920)
• Souvenirs of France (1933)
• Brazilian Sketches: 1927 (1940)

Most complete collected sets

• The Outward Bound Edition (New York), 1897–1937 – 36 volumes
• The Edition de Luxe (London), 1897–1937 – 38 volumes
• The Bombay Edition (London), 1913–38 – 31 volumes
• The Sussex Edition (London), 1937–39 – 35 volumes
• The Burwash Edition (New York), 1941 – 28 volumes

The last two of these editions include volume(s) of "uncollected prose".^[2][15]

Poems

His own collections

Collections issued during his lifetime by the poet himself include:

• Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, 1886.
• Barrack Room Ballads, 1889, republished with additions at various times.
• The Seven Seas and Further Barrack-Room Ballads, in various editions 1891–96.
• The Five Nations, with some new and some reprinted (often revised) poems, 1903.
• Twenty-two original 'Historical Poems' contributed to C.R.L. Fletcher's A History of England (a cheaper edition was sold as A School History of England), 1911.
• Songs from Books, 1912.
• The Years Between, 1919.

Posthumous collections

Posthumous collections of Kipling's poems include:

• Rudyard Kipling’s Verse: Definitive Edition.
• A Choice of Kipling's Verse, edited by T. S. Eliot (Faber and Faber, 1941).
• Early verse by Rudyard Kipling, 1879–1889 : unpublished, uncollected, and rarely collected poems, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986.
• The Surprising Mr Kipling, edited by Brian Harris, 2014

Individual poems

Some of Kipling's many poems are: