Ruskin Bond was born in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh, and grew up in Jamnagar (Gujrat), Dehradun, and Shimla. In course of a writing career spanning forty years, he has written over a hundred short stories, essays, novels, and more than thirty books of children.
Genres: Children's Fiction, General Fiction, Mystery, Historical
New and upcoming books
Series
Rusty
1. The Room on the Roof (1956)
2. Vagrants in the Valley (1987)
3. Rusty Runs Away (2002)
4. Rusty and the Leopard (2003)
5. Rusty Comes Home (2004)
6. Rusty Goes to London (2004)
The Adventures of Rusty (2012)
Rusty the Boy from the Hills (2014)
Rusty and the Magic Mountain (2015)
1. The Room on the Roof (1956)
2. Vagrants in the Valley (1987)
3. Rusty Runs Away (2002)
4. Rusty and the Leopard (2003)
5. Rusty Comes Home (2004)
6. Rusty Goes to London (2004)
The Adventures of Rusty (2012)
Rusty the Boy from the Hills (2014)
Rusty and the Magic Mountain (2015)
Novels
Man Eater of Manjari (1975)
Love Is a Sad Song (1976)
The Hidden Pool (1978)
Night of the Leopard (1979)
Cricket for the Crocodile (1986)
Maharani (2012)
The Chakrata Cat (2017)
Till the Clouds Roll By (2017)
And Girls Will Be Girls (2021)
Mysterious Tales from the Hills (2021)
Beneath The Whispering Pines (2022)
Adventures At School (2022)
The Yellow Umbrella (2022)
The Girl On The Train (2022)
Mrs Bhushan To The Rescue (2023)
Old School Tales (2023)
Great Trees I Have Known (2023)
We Must Love Someone (2023)
Days and Nights to Remember (2023)
The Hoopoe on the Lawn (2024)
Love Is a Sad Song (1976)
The Hidden Pool (1978)
Night of the Leopard (1979)
Cricket for the Crocodile (1986)
Maharani (2012)
The Chakrata Cat (2017)
Till the Clouds Roll By (2017)
And Girls Will Be Girls (2021)
Mysterious Tales from the Hills (2021)
Beneath The Whispering Pines (2022)
Adventures At School (2022)
The Yellow Umbrella (2022)
The Girl On The Train (2022)
Mrs Bhushan To The Rescue (2023)
Old School Tales (2023)
Great Trees I Have Known (2023)
We Must Love Someone (2023)
Days and Nights to Remember (2023)
The Hoopoe on the Lawn (2024)
Collections
Ranji's Wonderful Bat (1969)
aka Panther's Moon
Tales Told At Twilight (1970)
It Isn't Time That's Passing (poems) (1972)
The Road to the Bazaar (1980)
Tales and Legends from India (1982)
The Night Train At Deoli (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 (1996)
A Bond with the Mountains (1998)
Collected Fiction (1999)
A Season of Ghosts (1999)
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)
Potpourri (2007)
Ruskin Bond's Book of Verse (poems) (2007)
Ruskin Bond's Book of Humour (2008)
The Parrot who Wouldn't Talk (2008)
The Room of Many Colours (2009)
Mr. Oliver's Diary (2010)
When the Tiger Was King (2010)
Escape from Java (2010)
School Days (2010)
Crazy Times with Uncle Ken (2011)
The Kashmiri Storyteller (2011)
The Kitemaker (2011)
Stories Short and Sweet (2011)
Secrets (2011)
At School with Ruskin Bond (2011)
Hip-Hop Nature Boy (poems) (2012)
Ruskin Bond Box Set (2012)
No Man Is An Island (2013)
The Children's Companion (2013)
Tales of Fosterganj (2013)
Thick as Thieves (2013)
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 Box of Many Colours (2015)
Upon an Old Wall Dreaming (2016)
Collected Short Stories (2016)
Monkey Trouble (2016)
Time Stops at Shamli (2016)
My Favourite Nature Stories (2016)
The Room on the Roof / Vagrants in the Valley (2016)
The Prospect of Flowers (2016)
Whispers in the Dark (2016)
The White Tiger (2016)
Death Under the Deodars (2016)
A Song of Many Rivers (2016)
The Empty House (2016)
White Clouds, Green Mountains (2016)
The Beast Tamer (2016)
Party Time in Mussoorie (2016)
Small Towns, Big Stories (2016)
Great Stories for Children (2017)
Tigers for Dinner (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)
I Was The Wind Last Night (poems) (2017)
Unhurried Tales (2017)
Animal Stories (2017)
Tales to make you smile (2017)
The Beast With Five Fingures (2018)
Owls in the family (2018)
The Daffodil Case (2018)
A Bouquet of Love (2018)
The Great Train Journey (2018)
Landour Bazaar (2018)
Roads to Mussoorie (2018)
Captain Young's Ghost (2018)
Stories of Wisdom (2019)
Tales From The Childhood (2019)
The Tiger in the Tunnel (2019)
Petals on the Ganga (2019)
A Fire in the Night (2019)
Tales of Long Ago (2019)
Boyhood Dreams and Other Tales (2019)
A Love of Long Ago (2019)
Rhododendrons in the Mist (2019)
A Murder In Mussoorie And Other Tales (2019)
Boy in a Blue Pullover (2020)
Braving Mussoorie's Madding Crowd (2020)
A Gallery of Rascals (2020)
The Trees of Dehra (2020)
A Box of Stories (2020)
The Great Indian Rope Trick (2021)
All-Time Favourites for Children (2021)
Tales From My Heart (2021)
They Never Get Caught (2021)
Roads To New Delhi (2021)
The Shadow On The Wall (2021)
My School on the Hil (2022)
All Creatures Great and Small (2022)
Great Stories for All Time by Two Master Storytellers (2022) (with Roald Dahl)
Song of the Forest (2022)
Lessons in Fun and Frolic (2022)
Between Heaven and Earth (2022) (with Bulbul Sharma)
25 Greatest Stories for Young Readers (2023)
My Time in the Town (2023)
All-time Favourite Nature Stories (2023)
The Gold Collection (2023)
My Father's Last Letter (2023)
Great Stories for Children Volume 4 (2023)
Great Stories for Children Volume 1 (2023)
Great Stories for Children Volume 2 (2023)
My India, Longing and Belonging (2023)
The Mystery Omnibus (2023)
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (2023)
Tales from My Boyhood (2023)
My Friends from the Forest (2023)
First Loves, Last Loves (2024)
Old Mountains, New Echoes (2024)
The Land of Many Colours (2024)
Stories to Live By (2024)
The Big Book of Mountain Tales (2024)
Whispers of the Rain (2024)
King Bharata And Other Stories (2024)
Seven Brides For Seven Princes And Other Stories (2024)
Some Hill Station Ghosts and Other Stories (2024)
Tales of Mischief and Adventure (2024)
The Tiger in the Tunnel and Other Stories (2024)
Do You Believe in Ghosts? (2024)
Stories From My Heart (2024)
aka Panther's Moon
Tales Told At Twilight (1970)
It Isn't Time That's Passing (poems) (1972)
The Road to the Bazaar (1980)
Tales and Legends from India (1982)
The Night Train At Deoli (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 (1996)
A Bond with the Mountains (1998)
Collected Fiction (1999)
A Season of Ghosts (1999)
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)
Potpourri (2007)
Ruskin Bond's Book of Verse (poems) (2007)
Ruskin Bond's Book of Humour (2008)
The Parrot who Wouldn't Talk (2008)
The Room of Many Colours (2009)
Mr. Oliver's Diary (2010)
When the Tiger Was King (2010)
Escape from Java (2010)
School Days (2010)
Crazy Times with Uncle Ken (2011)
The Kashmiri Storyteller (2011)
The Kitemaker (2011)
Stories Short and Sweet (2011)
Secrets (2011)
At School with Ruskin Bond (2011)
Hip-Hop Nature Boy (poems) (2012)
Ruskin Bond Box Set (2012)
No Man Is An Island (2013)
The Children's Companion (2013)
Tales of Fosterganj (2013)
Thick as Thieves (2013)
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 Box of Many Colours (2015)
Upon an Old Wall Dreaming (2016)
Collected Short Stories (2016)
Monkey Trouble (2016)
Time Stops at Shamli (2016)
My Favourite Nature Stories (2016)
The Room on the Roof / Vagrants in the Valley (2016)
The Prospect of Flowers (2016)
Whispers in the Dark (2016)
The White Tiger (2016)
Death Under the Deodars (2016)
A Song of Many Rivers (2016)
The Empty House (2016)
White Clouds, Green Mountains (2016)
The Beast Tamer (2016)
Party Time in Mussoorie (2016)
Small Towns, Big Stories (2016)
Great Stories for Children (2017)
Tigers for Dinner (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)
I Was The Wind Last Night (poems) (2017)
Unhurried Tales (2017)
Animal Stories (2017)
Tales to make you smile (2017)
The Beast With Five Fingures (2018)
Owls in the family (2018)
The Daffodil Case (2018)
A Bouquet of Love (2018)
The Great Train Journey (2018)
Landour Bazaar (2018)
Roads to Mussoorie (2018)
Captain Young's Ghost (2018)
Stories of Wisdom (2019)
Tales From The Childhood (2019)
The Tiger in the Tunnel (2019)
Petals on the Ganga (2019)
A Fire in the Night (2019)
Tales of Long Ago (2019)
Boyhood Dreams and Other Tales (2019)
A Love of Long Ago (2019)
Rhododendrons in the Mist (2019)
A Murder In Mussoorie And Other Tales (2019)
Boy in a Blue Pullover (2020)
Braving Mussoorie's Madding Crowd (2020)
A Gallery of Rascals (2020)
The Trees of Dehra (2020)
A Box of Stories (2020)
The Great Indian Rope Trick (2021)
All-Time Favourites for Children (2021)
Tales From My Heart (2021)
They Never Get Caught (2021)
Roads To New Delhi (2021)
The Shadow On The Wall (2021)
My School on the Hil (2022)
All Creatures Great and Small (2022)
Great Stories for All Time by Two Master Storytellers (2022) (with Roald Dahl)
Song of the Forest (2022)
Lessons in Fun and Frolic (2022)
Between Heaven and Earth (2022) (with Bulbul Sharma)
25 Greatest Stories for Young Readers (2023)
My Time in the Town (2023)
All-time Favourite Nature Stories (2023)
The Gold Collection (2023)
My Father's Last Letter (2023)
Great Stories for Children Volume 4 (2023)
Great Stories for Children Volume 1 (2023)
Great Stories for Children Volume 2 (2023)
My India, Longing and Belonging (2023)
The Mystery Omnibus (2023)
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (2023)
Tales from My Boyhood (2023)
My Friends from the Forest (2023)
First Loves, Last Loves (2024)
Old Mountains, New Echoes (2024)
The Land of Many Colours (2024)
Stories to Live By (2024)
The Big Book of Mountain Tales (2024)
Whispers of the Rain (2024)
King Bharata And Other Stories (2024)
Seven Brides For Seven Princes And Other Stories (2024)
Some Hill Station Ghosts and Other Stories (2024)
Tales of Mischief and Adventure (2024)
The Tiger in the Tunnel and Other Stories (2024)
Do You Believe in Ghosts? (2024)
Stories From My Heart (2024)
Novellas and Short Stories
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)
The Sensualist (2009)
A Handful of Nuts (2009)
Susanna's Seven Husbands (2011)
A Long Walk for Bina (2012)
Romi and The Wildfire (2013)
The World Outside My Window (2016)
The Laughing Skull (2016)
The Lagoon (2017)
A Mussoorie Mystery (2017)
Boys Will Be Boys (2021)
Legends of the Hill (2021)
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)
The Sensualist (2009)
A Handful of Nuts (2009)
Susanna's Seven Husbands (2011)
A Long Walk for Bina (2012)
Romi and The Wildfire (2013)
The World Outside My Window (2016)
The Laughing Skull (2016)
The Lagoon (2017)
A Mussoorie Mystery (2017)
Boys Will Be Boys (2021)
Legends of the Hill (2021)
Anthologies edited
The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories (1993)
Book of Classical Indian Love Stories and Lyrics (1996)
Indian Ghost Stories (1998)
Lamp Is Lit, Leaves From a Journal (1998)
The Rupa Book of Travellers' Tales (2000)
The Penguin Book of Classical Indian Love Stories and Lyrics (2000)
Penguin Book of Indian Railway Stories (2000)
Ghost Stories from the Raj (2002)
The Rupa Book of Great Animal Stories (2003)
The Rupa Book of Great Suspense Stories (2003)
The Rupa Book of Indian Love Stories (2003)
The Rupa Book of True Tales of Mystery and Adventure (2003)
Indian Railway Stories (2003)
The Rupa Book of Nightmare Tales (2004)
The Rupa Book of Shikar Stories (2004)
The Rupa Book of Love Stories (2004)
The Rupa Book of Great Escapes (2005)
The Rupa Book Of Himalayan Tales (2005)
The Landour Cookbook (2005) (with Ganesh Saili)
Rupa's Supernatural Omnibus (2005)
The Rupa Book of Wicked Stories (2005)
The Rupa Book of Heartwarming Stories (2005)
The Rupa Book of Ruskin Bond's Himalayan Tales (2005)
The Rupa Books of Thrills and Spills (2005)
The Rupa Book of Great Crime Stories (2006)
The Rupa Book of Haunted Houses (2006)
The Rupa Book of Favourite Fairy Tales (2006)
Book of Classic School Stories (2006)
The Rupa Book of Scary Stories (2006)
The Rupa Laughter Omnibus (2007)
Once Upon a Time in the Doon (2007)
Rendezvous with Horror (2007)
The Rupa Book of Eerie Stories (2007)
Shudders in the Dark (2007)
The Puffin Book Of School Stories (2007)
The Rupa Book of Snappy Surprise Stories (2007)
The Ruskin Bond Horror Omnibus (2008)
Thrilling Tales (2010)
The Rupa Book Of Great Escape Stories (2010)
Tusker Tales (2010)
The Rupa Book of Snappy Surprises (2010)
School Times (2010)
Immortal Stories (2013)
The Perfect Murder (2017)
Prankenstein (2017) (with Jerry Pinto)
My Trees in the Himalayas (2018)
Fright or Flight (2018)
Whispering in the Dark (2018)
The House of Strange Stories (2018)
The Phantom Coach (2018)
The Duel (2019)
The Thing in the Upper Room (2019)
An Underground Walk (2019)
Night of the Millennium (2019)
The Book of Crazy Mischief (2019) (with Jerry Pinto)
Stories from My Childhood (2021)
13 Chilling Ghost Stories (2024)
Book of Classical Indian Love Stories and Lyrics (1996)
Indian Ghost Stories (1998)
Lamp Is Lit, Leaves From a Journal (1998)
The Rupa Book of Travellers' Tales (2000)
The Penguin Book of Classical Indian Love Stories and Lyrics (2000)
Penguin Book of Indian Railway Stories (2000)
Ghost Stories from the Raj (2002)
The Rupa Book of Great Animal Stories (2003)
The Rupa Book of Great Suspense Stories (2003)
The Rupa Book of Indian Love Stories (2003)
The Rupa Book of True Tales of Mystery and Adventure (2003)
Indian Railway Stories (2003)
The Rupa Book of Nightmare Tales (2004)
The Rupa Book of Shikar Stories (2004)
The Rupa Book of Love Stories (2004)
The Rupa Book of Great Escapes (2005)
The Rupa Book Of Himalayan Tales (2005)
The Landour Cookbook (2005) (with Ganesh Saili)
Rupa's Supernatural Omnibus (2005)
The Rupa Book of Wicked Stories (2005)
The Rupa Book of Heartwarming Stories (2005)
The Rupa Book of Ruskin Bond's Himalayan Tales (2005)
The Rupa Books of Thrills and Spills (2005)
The Rupa Book of Great Crime Stories (2006)
The Rupa Book of Haunted Houses (2006)
The Rupa Book of Favourite Fairy Tales (2006)
Book of Classic School Stories (2006)
The Rupa Book of Scary Stories (2006)
The Rupa Laughter Omnibus (2007)
Once Upon a Time in the Doon (2007)
Rendezvous with Horror (2007)
The Rupa Book of Eerie Stories (2007)
Shudders in the Dark (2007)
The Puffin Book Of School Stories (2007)
The Rupa Book of Snappy Surprise Stories (2007)
The Ruskin Bond Horror Omnibus (2008)
Thrilling Tales (2010)
The Rupa Book Of Great Escape Stories (2010)
Tusker Tales (2010)
The Rupa Book of Snappy Surprises (2010)
School Times (2010)
Immortal Stories (2013)
The Perfect Murder (2017)
Prankenstein (2017) (with Jerry Pinto)
My Trees in the Himalayas (2018)
Fright or Flight (2018)
Whispering in the Dark (2018)
The House of Strange Stories (2018)
The Phantom Coach (2018)
The Duel (2019)
The Thing in the Upper Room (2019)
An Underground Walk (2019)
Night of the Millennium (2019)
The Book of Crazy Mischief (2019) (with Jerry Pinto)
Stories from My Childhood (2021)
13 Chilling Ghost Stories (2024)
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Ruskin Bond recommends
The Mystery of the Missing Cat (2021)
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