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Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Killing Floor
Lee Child

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II
William Blum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Killing Jodie
Janet Fife-Yeomans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Killing Lincoln
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Killing Mr. Griffin
Lois Duncan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1978

Killing November (Killing November, #1)
Adriana Mather

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
Mark Bowden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Killing Patton
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Killing Rage: Ending Racism
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Killing Sarai
J.A. Redmerski

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Killing The Rising Sun
Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Chuck Klosterman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Kill Me If You Can
Marshall Karp, James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Kill Me Quick
Meja Mwangi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1973

Killshot
Elmore Leonard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Kill Shot
Vince Flynn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Kill Switch
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Kill Switch (Devil's Night)
Penelope Douglas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Kill the Boy Band
Goldy Moldavsky

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Kill the Dead
Richard Kadrey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Kill the Farm Boy (The Tales of Pell, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Kilmeny of the Orchard
L.M. Montgomery

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1910

Kim
Rudyard Kipling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1901

Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 1
Karuho Shiina, Tomo Kimura

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Kim's Convenience
Ins Choi

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Kindertransport
Olga Levy Drucker

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Kindle Paperwhite User’s Guide
Amazon

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Kindness for Weakness
Shawn Goodman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Kindness Goes Unpunished
Craig Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Kindred
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Octavia E. Butler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

King
T.M. Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

King Alfred of England (Makers of History, #9)
Jacob Abbott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1849

King: A Life
Jonathan Eig

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

King and Maxwell
David Baldacci

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

King and the Dragonflies
Kacen Callender

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Roger Lancelyn Green

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1953

King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales
Eugène Vinaver, Thomas Malory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Kingdom Come
Mark Waid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Kingdom of Ash
Sarah J. Maas

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
Louise Penny

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Kingdom of the Cursed
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2021

Kingdom of the Feared
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2022

Kingdom of the Wicked
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Kingdom's Dawn (Kingdom, #1)
Chuck Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Kingdom's Edge (Kingdom, #3)
Chuck Black

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

King George: What Was His Problem?
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

King Hedley II
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

King John
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

King Lear
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

King Leopold's Soliloquy
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905

King of Battle and Blood
Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

King of Battle and Blood (Adrian X Isolde, 1)
Scarlett St. Clair

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

King of Greed
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

King of Pride
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

King of Scars
Leigh Bardugo

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

King of Shadows
Susan Cooper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

King of Sloth
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

King Of The Mild Frontier
Chris Crutcher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2003

King of the Murgos
David Eddings

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1988

King of the Screwups
K. L. Going

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

King of the Wind
Marguerite Henry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1948

King of the World
David Remnick

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

King of Thorns (The Broken Empire, #2)
Mark Lawrence

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

King of Wrath: An Arranged Marriage Romance
Ana Huang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

King Ottokar's Sceptre (Tintin #8)
Hergé

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1943

King Rat
James Clavell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

Kingsbane
Claire Legrand

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2019

King's Cage (Red Queen, #3)
Victoria Aveyard

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Kings of Chaos
Eva Ashwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Kings of Quarantine
Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

Kings of the Wyld (The Band, #1)
Nicholas Eames

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

King Solomon's Mines
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

King Solomon’s Mines
H. Rider Haggard

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1885

King Solomon's Ring (Routledge Classics)
Konrad Lorenz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1949

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
Tanya Boteju

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Kings Rising
C.S. Pacat

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Kintu
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Kira-Kira
Cynthia Kadohata

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Kiss an Angel
Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1996

Kiss and Don't Tell
Meghan Quinn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Kisscut (Grant County, #2)
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Kisses from Katie
Katie J. Davis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

Kiss Her Once for Me
Alison Cochrun

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Kissing Coffins
Ellen Schreiber

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

Kiss Me First
Lottie Moggach

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Kiss Me, Judas
Will Christopher Baer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Kiss Number 8
Colleen AF Venable

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

Kiss of a Demon King
Kresley Cole

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Kiss of Crimson
Lara Adrian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007