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Standalone Books in Order
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: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Standalone series? Start with "Man Eater of Manjari" (1975) and follow publication order through all 139 books.
The complete Standalone reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Man Eater of Manjari
1975
Love Is A Sad Song
1976
The Hidden Pool
1978
Cricket for the Crocodile
1986
Maharani
2012
The Chakrata Cat
2017
Till the Clouds Roll By
2017
Owls in the Family
2018
The Tunnel
2021
My Father’s Last Letter
2023
A Flight of Pigeons
1980
The Eyes of the Eagle
1987
Grandfathers Private Zoo
1989
Hanuman to the Rescue
1993
Delhi Is Not Far
1994
Leopard on the Mountain
1998
A Handful of Nuts
2009
The Sensualist
2009
Susanna's Seven Husbands
2011
A Long Walk for Bina
2012
Romi and the Wild Fire
2013
The World Outside My Window
2016
The Laughing Skull
2016
The Lagoon
2017
A Mussoorie Mystery
2017
Legends of the Hill
2021
Boys Will Be Boys
2021
And Girls Will Be Girls
2021
My School on the Hill
2022
Listen to Your Heart
2022
The Garden of Dreams
2022
Panther's Moon / Ranji's Wonderful Bat
1969
Tales Told At Twilight
1970
It Isn't Time That's Passing
1972
The Road To The Bazaar
1980
Tales and Legends from India
1982
The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories
1988
Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories
1989
Dust on the Mountain
1990
Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra
1992
Snake Trouble / Ghost Trouble
1992
An Island Of Trees
1992
Rain in the Mountains
1993
Strangers In The Night
1994
A Bond With The Mountains
1998
Collected Fiction
1999
A Season Of Ghosts
2000
Ruskin Bond's Treasury Of Stories For Children
2000
When Darkness Falls and Other Stories
2001
Treasury Of Stories For Children
2001
The Best of Ruskin Bond
2003
Friends in Small Places
2003
A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings
2004
Ruskin Bond's Book Of Nature
2004
Too Much Trouble
2006
Of Birds and Beasts
2006
Ruskin Bond's Book Of Verse
2007
Potpourri
2007
Ruskin Bond's Book of Humour
2008
The Parrot Who Wouldn't Talk And Other Stories
2008
The Room of Many Colours
2009
School Days
2010
When the Tiger was the King
2010
Mr. Oliver's Diary
2010
Escape From Java & Other Tales Of Danger
2010
Crazy Times with Uncle Ken
2011
The Kitemaker
2011
Stories Short & Sweet
2011
The Kashmiri Storyteller
2011
Secrets
2011
At School With Ruskin Bond
2011
Hip-Hop Nature Boy And Other Poems
2012
No Man is an Island
2013
The children's companion
2013
Thick as Thieves
2013
Tales of Fosterganj
2014
The Writer on the Hill
2014
Uncles, Aunts and Elephants
2014
Falling in Love Again
2014
A Garland of Memories
2014
The Whistling Schoolboy
2015
A Gathering of Friends
2015
The Essential Collection for Young Readers
2015
Panther's Moon and Other Stories
2015
The Big Book of Animal Stories
2015
The Whistling Schoolboy and Other Stories of School Life
2015
The Box of Many Colours
2015
Upon an Old Wall Dreaming
2016
Collected Short Stories
2016
Time Stops at Shamli
2016
Room On The Roof; Vagrants In The Valley
2016
The Prospect of Flowers
2016
The White Tiger and Other Stories
2016
Whispers in the Dark
2016
Death Under the Deodars
2016
A Song of Many Rivers
2016
My Favourite Nature Stories
2016
Monkey Trouble
2016
The Empty House
2016
White Clouds, Green Mountains
2016
The Beast Tamer
2016
Party Time in Mussoorie
2016
Small Towns, Big Stories
2017
Voting at Fosterganj
2017
Who Kissed Me in the Dark
2017
The Kipling Road
2017
The Elephant and the Cassowary
2017
The Wise Parrot
2017
The Regimental Myna
2017
Children of India
2017
Eyes of the Cat
2017
The Man Who Was Kipling
2017
When the Clock Strikes Thirteen
2017
When The Night Falls
2017
Unhurried Tales
2017
I Was the Wind Last Night
2017
Animal Stories
2017
Tales To Make You Smile
2017
Great Stories for Children
2017
Tigers for Dinner
2017
The Beast With Five Fingures
2018
A Bouquet Of Love
2018
The Great Train Journey
2018
Landour Bazaar
2018
Roads To Mussoorie
2018
Captain Young's Ghost
2018
The Daffodil Case
2018
Tiger in the Tunnel
2019
A Gallery of Rascals
2019
Words from My Window
2019
Boyhood Dreams And Other Tales
2019
Braving Mussoorie's Madding Crowd
2020
Miracle At Happy Bazaar
2020
The Trees Of Dehra
2020
All-Time Favourites for Children
2021
The Shadow on the Wall
2021
All Creatures Great and Small
2022
25 Greatest Stories for Young Readers
2023
My India, Longing and Belonging
2023
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