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Kiss of Death
Rachel Caine, Cynthia Holloway

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Kiss of Frost
Jennifer Estep

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2011

Kiss of Midnight
Lara Adrian

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Kiss of Snow
Nalini Singh

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Kiss of the Fur Queen
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998

Kiss of the Highlander
Karen Marie Moning

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Kiss of the Night
Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004

Kiss of the Spider Woman
Manuel Puig

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Kiss the Dead
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Kiss the Girls
James Patterson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Kiss the Sky
Becca Ritchie, Krista Ritchie

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1988

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Kitchens of the Great Midwest
J. Ryan Stradal

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal
Rachel Naomi Remen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Kit's Wilderness
David Almond

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Carrie Vaughn

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
Nikolaus Wachsmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat
Johnny Marciano

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Kneeknock Rise
Natalie Babbitt

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1970

Knife
Neil Smith, Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Knife Edge
Malorie Blackman

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2003

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

Knife of Dreams
Robert Jordan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Knight
Kristen Ashley

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Knights of the Kitchen Table
Jon Scieszka

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Knight & Stay
Kitty French

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Knit Two (Friday Night Knitting Club, #2)
Kate Jacobs

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
Louise Rennison

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001

Knockemstiff
Donald Ray Pollock

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
Katy Butler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Knockout (House Arrest, #2)
K.A. Holt

Fiction | Poem | YA | Published in 2018

Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)
Ian Rankin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid
Jerry Spinelli

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Knowing God
J. I. Packer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Know My Name: A Memoir
Chanel Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Know What You Believe: Connecting Faith and Truth
Paul E. Little, Marie Little

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Knucklehead
Jon Scieszka

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Kobe Bryant
Jeff Savage

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Kokoda
Peter FitzSimons

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Kokoro
Natsume Sōseki

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1914

Kolyma Tales
Varlam Shalamov

Fiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1978

Kon-Tiki
Thor Heyerdahl

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1948

K-pop Confidential (K-pop Confidential, #1)
Stephan Lee

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Krabat
Otfried Preußler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1971

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Simon Winchester

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Kraken
China Miéville

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Kristin Lavransdatter
Sigrid Undset

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1920

Kristy's Big Day: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #6)
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Kristy's Great Idea
Ann M. Martin

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1986

Kudos
Rachel Cusk

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

Kulti
Mariana Zapata

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
Zoltan Ab di-Nagy, David H. Goldsmith, Wendy B. Faris, Harold Bloom, Lawrence R. Broer, Leonard Mustazza, Peter Freese, Peter J. Reed, James Lundquist, Richard Giannone, William S. Doxey, Loree Rackstraw, Terry Southern, John L. Simons, Jerome Klinkowitz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Kushiel's Avatar
Jacqueline Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Kushiel's Chosen
Jacqueline Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

Kushiel's Dart (Phèdre's Trilogy, #1)
Jacqueline Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Kushiel's Scion
Jacqueline Carey

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Lafcadio Hearn

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1904

Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
Three Initiates, William Walker Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1912

Kyland
Mia Sheridan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Alexander McCall Smith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2002

The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Jesse Kirkwood, Hisashi Kashiwai

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Keep
Jennifer Egan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Keep (Adversary Cycle, #1)
F. Paul Wilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1981

The Keeper
Jessica Moor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Keeper: A Graphic Novel
Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Keeper of Happy Endings
Barbara Davis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Keeper of Hidden Books
Madeline Martin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The Keeper of Lost Causes
Jussi Adler-Olsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

The Keeper of Lost Things
Ruth Hogan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Keeper of Sheep
Fernando Pessoa

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1914

The Keeper of Stories
Sally Page

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Keeper of the Bees
Gene Stratton-Porter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

The Keepers of the House
Shirley Ann Grau

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1964

The Keepsake (Rizzoli & Isles, #7)
Tess Gerritsen

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

The Kennedy Debutante
Kerri Maher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Kentucky Cycle
Robert Schenkkan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

The Kept
James Scott

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The Kept Woman
Karin Slaughter

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

The Key of the Mysteries
Éliphas Lévi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1861

The Keys of the Kingdom
A.J. Cronin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1941

The Key to Extraordinary
Natalie Lloyd

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

The Key to Midnight
Dean Koontz

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1979

The Key to Rebecca
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1980

The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1789

The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore
Joan Lowery Nixon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
David Kertzer

Nonfiction | Biography | Published in 1997

The Kid Who Only Hit Homers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1972

The Kid Who Ran for President
Dan Gutman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)
Daniel Silva

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1974

The Killer Collective
Barry Eisler

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1952

The Killer Next Door
Alex Marwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

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