Books Like The Jungle Book

Richard Adams, Richard Adams

Like The Jungle Book, it gives rabbits a full society with its own laws, leaders, and dangers, told with the same respect for the natural world as Kipling's animals.

Jack London

Its dog Buck is pulled from comfort into a harsh wild, much as Mowgli is, and London, like Kipling, treats the animal world as a place governed by strength and instinct.

Anna Sewell

Narrated by a horse, it offers the same mix of animal point of view and moral lessons about cruelty, loyalty, and survival that gives The Jungle Book its heart.

Gary Paulsen

A boy alone in the Canadian wilderness must learn the rules of nature to survive, echoing Mowgli's apprenticeship to the wild and its creatures.

Daniel Defoe

A castaway builds a new life through ingenuity and hard-won knowledge of his surroundings, the same pleasure of watching a newcomer master a strange world that Kipling offers.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

A man raised by animals in the jungle is torn between two worlds, a direct descendant of Mowgli's story with fast, episodic adventure.

Kenneth Grahame

Animal characters with distinct personalities, gentle humour, and episodic adventures make this a comfortable companion to Kipling's animal fables.

Rudyard Kipling

Kipling's own collection of playful tales explaining how animals got their markings, sharing the rhythm and humour of The Jungle Book in a lighter form.

E. B. White, Kate DiCamillo

A barnyard spider and pig are given real voices and dignity, with the same blend of warmth, wit, and hard truths about life in the animal world.

Rudyard Kipling

Kipling's later novel follows an Irish orphan through India's roads and cultures, carrying the same vivid sense of the land and its people that colours The Jungle Book.

E. M. Forster

A richly observed portrait of British and Indian lives under colonial rule, offering a more complex and adult view of the country Kipling wrote about.

Arundhati Roy

Its lush, sensory prose evokes the landscape and rhythms of Kerala, appealing to readers who loved the lush sensory detail of Kipling's Indian jungle.