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A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Blood and Ash, #2)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
Brittany Barnett, Brittany K. Barnett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Kabuliwala
Rabindranath Tagore

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1892

Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography
Mark Mathabane

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Kafka on the Shore
Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Kanthapura
Raja Rao

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1967

Kantika
Elizabeth Graver

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Katie the Catsitter (Katie the Catsitter, #1)
Stephanie Yue, Colleen AF Venable, Illustr. Stephanie Yue, Colleen A.F. Venable

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Keeper'n Me
Richard Wagamese

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

Keeper of the Lost Cities (Keeper of the Lost Cities, #1)
Shannon Messenger

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

Keeping 13 (Boys of Tommen, #2)
Chloe Walsh

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2018

Keep It in the Family
John Marrs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Keesha's House
Helen Frost

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2003

Kew Gardens
Virginia Woolf

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1978

Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Sid Hite

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2002

Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
Faïza Guène, Sarah Adams, Faiza Guene

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Killers of a Certain Age
Deanna Raybourn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher #1)
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Killing Jesus: A History
Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Killing Mr. Griffin
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1990

Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Killing Rage: Ending Racism
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Killings
Andre Dubus II

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1979

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Dorothy Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Kill Joy (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #0.5)
Holly Jackson, Holly Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Kim
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A Novel
Transl. Jamie Chang, Cho Nam-Joo

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Kindness
Naomi Shihab Nye

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1980

Kindred
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

King: A Life
Jonathan Eig

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold)
Kacen Callender

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (Puffin Classics)
Lotte Reiniger, Roger Lancelyn Green

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Kingdom of Ash
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution
Tim Robinson, Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

King Hedley II
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

King Henry IV, Part 1
William Shakespeare, David Scott Kastan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

King Lear
William James Rolfe, William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

King of Scars (King of Scars, #1)
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

King of the Bingo Game
Ralph Ellison

Fiction | Short Story | Adult

King of Wrath: An Arranged Marriage Romance
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Kira-Kira
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Kisses from Katie
Katie J. Davis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Kissing in Vietnamese
Ocean Vuong

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2014

Kiss of the Fur Queen
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1999

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Manuel Puig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

Kitchen
Megan Backus, Banana Yoshimoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Kitchens of the Great Midwest
J. Ryan Stradal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Knights of the Kitchen Table (Time Warp Trio, #1)
Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Knock Knock
Daniel Beaty

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2013

Know My Name
Chanel Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Knoxville, Tennessee
Nikki Giovanni

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1968

Kokoro
Edwin McClellan, Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Krik? Krak!
Edwidge Danticat

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1996

Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Kristy's Great Idea: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #1)
Raina Telgemeier, Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Coleridge

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2015

The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Keeper of Happy Endings
Barbara Davis, Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Keeper of Hidden Books
Madeline Martin, Madeline Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Keeper of Lost Things
Ruth Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Kid Who Ran for President (Kid President, #1)
Dan Gutman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2000

The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
Michael Shaara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Killers
Ernest Hemingway

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1927

The Kill Order (The Maze Runner, #0.4)
James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2012

The Kind Worth Killing (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #1)
Peter Swanson, Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark
Ridley Pearson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
Sean Wilentz, Paul E. Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Kingdom of This World
Alejo Carpentier, Harriet de Onís

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Tim Alberta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2016

The King's Speech
Peter Conradi , Mark Logue , Mark Logue, Peter Conradi

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
Helen Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
Robert Alexander

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Kitchen Front
Jennifer Ryan, Jennifer Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Kitchen House
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Kite Fighters
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Known World
Edward P. Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy, Isai Kamen, Doris Lessing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003