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A Kind of Flying
Ron Carlson

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin, Otto Penzler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1953

Kabul Beauty School
Deborah Rodriguez, Kristin Ohlson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Kafka Was the Rage
Anatole Broyard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1975

Kallocain
Richard B. Vowles, Gustaf Lannestock, Karin Boye

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1940

Kane and Abel
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Karl Marx
Francis Wheen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Katalin Street
Magda Szabó

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1969

Keeping Corner
Kashmira Sheth

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Keeping Faith
Jimmy Carter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Keeping the Castle
Patrice Kindl

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Keeping the Moon
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Keeping You A Secret
Julie Anne Peters

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Ketchup Clouds
Annabel Pitcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Keturah and Lord Death
Martine Leavitt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Khirbet Khizeh
David Shulman, S. Yizhar, Yaacob Dweck, Nicholas de Lange

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1949

Kierkegaard: A Single Life
Stephen Backhouse

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

Killer of Enemies
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Killer Pizza
Greg Taylor, Greg Taylor

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Kill Hole
Jamake Highwater

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Killing Jodie
Janet Fife-Yeomans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Killing The Rising Sun
Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

King John
Paul Werstine, William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

King of Shadows
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

King Of The Mild Frontier
Chris Crutcher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2003

King of the Screwups
K.L. Going, K. L. Going

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

King of the Wind
Marguerite Henry, Wesley Dennis

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1948

King of the World
David Remnick

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

King Rat
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

King Solomon’s Mines
Alexandra Fuller, H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

Kiss Me First
Lottie Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Kiss Number 8
Ellen T. Crenshaw, Colleen AF Venable, Colleen A.F. Venable

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2019

Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Kit's Wilderness
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

Knucklehead
Jon Scieszka

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Kobe Bryant
Jeff Savage

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov, John Glad

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1978

The Keep
Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Keepers of the House
Shirley Ann Grau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Kentucky Cycle
Robert Schenkkan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

The Kept
James Scott, James Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
David Kertzer, David I. Kertzer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

The Killer of Little Shepherds
Douglas Starr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Killer's Cousin
Nancy Werlin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

The Killer's Tears
Anne-Laure Bondoux

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Kindness of Enemies
Leila Aboulela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The King and I
Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

The King Must Die
Mary Renault

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany, Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

The King of Mulberry Street
Donna Jo Napoli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The King of Torts
John Grisham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The King's Shadow
Elizabeth Alder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The Kitchen God's Wife
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Kitemaker
Ruskin Bond

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1976

The Kite Rider
Geraldine Mccaughrean

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Knight in Rusty Armor
Robert Fisher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Koran
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1956

The Korean War
Bruce Cumings

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Kreutzer Sonata
Margriet De Moor, Susan Massotty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Kugelmass Episode
Woody Allen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977