Go for it! and don't forget his short stories.
If you like English history, get "Puck of Pook's Hill" and "Rewards and Fairies". As good as "The Jungle Book" in my opinion - deeper.
His great novel is Kim, a gorgeous panorama of India under the Raj . . . I read a review not long ago by an Indian writer, who compares Kim to Forster's A Passage to India and concludes that Kipling, after all, got it right and Forster got it wrong. (The fact that I agree whole-heartedly is mere coincidence ;-) ) Forster sees India as ultimately hollow - the terrifying empty BOUM echo in the cave - but Kipling sees India as beautiful, marvelous, and spiritually rich rather than hollow.
Reading has always been my passion, but somehow my teachers never pointed me in Kipling's direction, and I guess I wasn't very adventuresome---
These books, short stories, and poems might have helped me years ago when I worked as a Medical Assistant to a Neurologist from India---he and his family went there twice a year and he spoke about India often, but I hadn't even read anything about India or works by Kipling--it might have helped me understand his "musings".