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The Killer's Tears
Anne-Laure Bondoux

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

The Killing
Robert Muchamore

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2005

The Killing 2 (The Killing, #2)
David Hewson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

The Killing Dance
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

The Killing Fields
Christopher Hudson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

The Killing Hour
Lisa Gardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Killing Moon
N.K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1)
N.K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1)
Caroline Graham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1987

The Kill Order
James Dashner

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Kinder Poison (The Kinder Poison, #1)
Natalie Mae

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Kindest Lie
Nancy Johnson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Kindly Ones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
Anthony Powell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1962

The Kindness of Enemies
Leila Aboulela

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Kind Worth Killing: A Novel
Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

The Kind Worth Saving (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #2)
Peter Swanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

The King
J.R. Ward

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The King and I
Richard Rodgers

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

The Kingdom
Robert Ferguson, Jo Nesbø

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

The Kingdom by the Sea
Paul Theroux

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

The Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark
Ridley Pearson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

The Kingdom of Back
Marie Lu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy, #2)
S.A. Chakraborty

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

The Kingdom of God Is Within You
Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1893

The Kingdom of Gods
N.K. Jemisin

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Kingdom Of This World
Alejo Carpentier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1949

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Kingmaker's Daughter
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The King Must Die
Mary Renault

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1958

The King of Attolia
Megan Whalen Turner

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006

The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

The King of Elfland's Daughter
Lord Dunsany

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1924

The King of Lies
John Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

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 Buccaneer (Krondor's Sons, #2)
Raymond E. Feist

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

The King's Curse
Philippa Gregory

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

The King's Fifth
Scott O'Dell

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1966

The King's General
Daphne du Maurier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1946

The King's Men
Nora Sakavic

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2014

The Kings of Clonmel
John Flanagan

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008

The Kings of Israel and Judah
George Rawlinson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

The King's Shadow
Elizabeth Alder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

The King's Speech
Mark Logue , Peter Conradi

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

The King's Traitor
Jeff Wheeler

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016

The Kiss
Kathryn Harrison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

The Kiss Curse
Erin Sterling

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

The Kissing Booth (The Kissing Booth, #1)
Beth Reekles

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)
Mary E. Pearson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

The Kiss Quotient
Helen Hoang

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2018

The Kiss Thief
L.J. Shen, Charline McGregor

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Kitchen Front: A Novel
Jennifer Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

The Kitchen God's Wife
Amy Tan

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1991

The Kitchen House
Kathleen Grissom

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

The Kitchen Mistress (The Letter #3)
Kathleen Shoop

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

The Kite Fighters
Linda Sue Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

The Kitemaker
Ruskin Bond

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1976

The Kite Rider
Geraldine Mccaughrean

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

The Knight at Dawn
Mary Pope Osborne

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1993

The Knight in Rusty Armor
Robert Fisher

Fiction | Novella | Middle Grade | Published in 1987

The Knockout Queen
Rufi Thorpe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation
Kabir Helminski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Knowledge of the Holy
A.W. Tozer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Known World
Edward P. Jones

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

The Kommandant's Girl
Pam Jenoff

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

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

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1993

The Krishna Key
Ashwin Sanghi

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

The Kugelmass Episode
Woody Allen

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1977