| Selected works |
| Schoolboy Lyrics, 1881 |
| Echoes, 1884 (with Alice Kipling) |
| Departmental Ditties and Other Verses, 1886 |
| 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 Tales, 1888 |
| Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories, 1888 |
| The Courting of Dinah Shadd and Other Stories, 1890 |
| The Light That Failed, 1891 |
| The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places, 1891 |
| Letters of Marque, 1891 |
| American Notes, 1891 |
| Life's Handicap : Being Stories of Mine Own People, 1891 |
| The Naulahka : A Story of West and East, 1892 (with Wolcott Balestier) |
| Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses, 1892 |
| Many Inventions, 1893 |
| Jungle Book, 1894 |
| The Second Jungle Book, 1895 |
| The Seven Seas, 1896 |
| Soldier Tales, 1896 |
| Captains Courageous, 1897 |
| The Day's Work, 1898 |
| Kipling's Poems, 1899 (edited by Wallace Rice) |
| Stalky and Co, 1899 |
| From Sea to Sea, 1899 (2 volumes) |
| Kim, 1901 |
| Just So Stories : For Little Children, 1902 |
| The Five Nations, 1903 |
| Trafficks and Discoveries, 1904 |
| Puck of Pook's Hill, 1906 |
| Collected Verse, 1907 |
| Actions and Reaction, 1909 |
| Abaft the Funnel, 1909 |
| Rewards and Fairies, 1910 |
| A Diversity of Creatures, 1917 |
| The Eyes of Asia, 1918 |
| Twenty Poems, 1918 |
| The Years Between, 1919 |
| Letters of Travel (1892-1913), 1920 |
| Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, 1923 |
| Debits and Credit, 1926 |
| Poems 1886-1929, 1929 (3 volumes) |
| Thy Servant a Dog, Told by Boots, 1930 |
| Humorous Tales, 1931 |
| Limits and Renewals, 1932 |
| The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling, 1937-1939 (35 volumes) |
| Rudyard Kipling's Verse, 1940 (Definitive Edition) |
| Kipling's India : Uncollected Sketches, 1884-1888, 1985 (edited by Thomas Pinney) |
| The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, 1990-2004 (6 volumes, edited by Thomas Pinney) |
| Literature (a selection) |
| Young, W. Arthur, A dictionary of the Caracters and Senes in the Stories and Poems of Rudyard Kipling : 1886-1911. – Routledge, [1911] |
| Durand, Ralph, A Handbook to the Poetry of Rudyard Kipling. – Hodder & Stoughton, 1914 |
| Falls, Cyril, Rudyard Kipling : a Critical Study. – Secker, 1915 |
| Beresford, George Charles, Schooldays with Kipling. – Gollancz, 1936 |
| Carrington, Charles Edmund, Rudyard Kipling : His Life and Work. – Macmillan, 1955 |
| Tompkins, Joyce Majorie Sanxter, The Art of Rudyard Kipling. – Methuen, 1959 |
| Cornell, Louis Longacre, Kipling in India. – Macmillan, 1966 |
| Dobrée, Bonamy, Rudyard Kipling. – Oxford Univ. Press, 1967 |
| Young, W. Arthur, A Kipling Dictionary. – Macmillan, 1967 |
| Rudyard Kipling : The Man, His Work and His World / edited by John Gross. – Weidenfeld, 1972 |
| Amis, Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling and His World. – Thames & Hudson, cop. 1975 |
| Keating, Peter J., Kipling : the Poet. – Secker & Warburg, 1994 |
| Lycett, Andrew, Rudyard Kipling. – Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999 |
| Ricketts, Harry, The Unforgiving Minute : a Life of Rudyard Kipling. – Chatto & Windus, 1999 |
| Gilmour, David, The Long Recessional : the Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling. – John Murray, 2002 |
The Swedish Academy, 2007