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Kick-Ass – The New Girl
Kick-Ass: The New Girl is an Image Comics superhero crime series (2018–2021) by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., relaunching Kick-Ass with veteran Patience Lee as the new hero.
Kidnapped (novel)
Kidnapped (1886) is Robert Louis Stevenson's historical adventure novel, full title Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751, set after Culloden and built on the Appin murder; sequel Catriona.
Kidung Harsawijaya
Kidung Harsawijaya is a Middle Javanese historical kidung about the fall of Singasari and the rise of Majapahit; its oldest manuscript was copied in Bali in 1843.
Kidung Panji Wijayakrama
Kidung Panji Wijayakrama, also called Kidung Sorandaka, is a Middle Javanese kidung, the earliest extant, with a proposed composition date of 24 November 1334, shortly after the events it describes.
Kidung Rangga Lawe
Kidung Rangga Lawe, also known as Kidung Panji Wijayakrama-Rangga Lawe, is a Middle Javanese poem about a Tuban noble who rebelled against Majapahit's founder Raden Wijaya.
Kidung Sunda
Kidung Sunda is a Middle Javanese narrative poem found in Bali and the fullest literary account of the Bubat incident of 1357, a clash between Sunda and Majapahit.
Kilgore Trout
Kilgore Trout: recurring fictional science-fiction writer in Kurt Vonnegut's novels, named for Theodore Sturgeon; first appears in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965); Philip José Farmer's Venus on the Half-Shell (1975) was published under his name.
Killed Again, Mr. Detective?
Killed Again, Mr. Detective? (また殺されてしまったのですね、探偵様) is a KADOKAWA MF Bunko J mystery light novel series by Teniwoha with art by Riichu, in which high school detective Sakuya is killed each case and revives; a 12-episode TV anime aired in 2026.
Killed Near Moscow
Killed Near Moscow (Убиты под Москвой) is a 1961 novella by Konstantin Vorobyov about young Kremlin cadets destroyed fighting German tanks near Moscow in November 1941.
Killing Floor (novel)
Killing Floor is a 1997 thriller novel by Lee Child, the first book in the Jack Reacher series, introducing the drifter Jack Reacher in Margrave, Georgia.
Killing Stalking (킬링 스토킹)
Killing Stalking (킬링 스토킹) is a Korean BL psychological thriller webtoon by Koogi, serialized on Lezhin Comics 2016–2019 in 67 chapters; it won Lezhin's ₩100,000,000 contest prize and was printed in English by Seven Seas.
Kim (novel)
Kim (1901) is Rudyard Kipling's picaresque masterpiece about Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan in Lahore who accompanies a Tibetan lama and becomes a British spy in the Great Game. Serialized in McClure's Magazine; first editions by Doubleday (New York) and Macmillan (London) in 1901.
Kimi to Hanabi to Yakusoku to (君と花火と約束と)
Kimi to Hanabi to Yakusoku to (君と花火と約束と) is a 2026 Japanese animated film based on Kaoru Mado's 2025 novel, released by Shochiku and set during the Nagaoka Matsuri Grand Fireworks Festival.
Kimi wa Yotsuba no Clover (きみは四葉のクローバー)
Kimi wa Yotsuba no Clover (きみは四葉のクローバー, きみクロ) is a love-suspense manga by Kōshi in Weekly Shōnen Champion from 2024, in which Yotsuba rewinds time with a four-leaf clover watch to save the bullied Utsu Uiichi.
Kin (novel)
Kin (2026) is Tayari Jones's fifth novel, published by Knopf. It follows motherless cradle friends Vernice and Annie in Jim Crow-era Louisiana, was an Oprah's Book Club pick, a New York Times bestseller, and won the Kirkus Prize for fiction.
Kindred (novel)
Kindred is Octavia E. Butler's 1979 neo-slave narrative novel in which Dana Franklin, a Black woman in 1976 Los Angeles, is repeatedly transported to an early 19th-century Maryland plantation; adapted as a 2017 graphic novel and a 2022 FX/Hulu series.
King Ban
King Ban of Benoic (Benwick), fictional Arthurian king, brother of Bors of Gaunes and father of Lancelot; loses his realm to Claudas, dies of sorrow, and his infant son is raised by the Lady of the Lake in the Vulgate Cycle.
King Claudius
King Claudius is the antagonist of Shakespeare's Hamlet: Denmark's king who murdered his brother, married Gertrude, and rules through rhetoric until Hamlet's revenge kills him.
King Ezekiel
King Ezekiel is a The Walking Dead character, self-styled king of the Kingdom settlement with pet tiger Shiva; comic debut issue #108, played by Khary Payton on AMC from 'The Well' (Season 7).
King Horn
King Horn is a Middle English chivalric romance, probably the oldest surviving composed in English, about a prince exiled by Saracens who wins a princess and reclaims his kingdom.
King Lazarus
King Lazarus is the English title of Le roi miraculé, a 1958 novel by the Cameroonian writer Mongo Beti about a tribal chief who converts to Catholicism.
King Lear
King Lear (The Tragedy of King Lear) is Shakespeare's Jacobean tragedy of an aged British king who divides his realm among Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia, with a parallel Gloucester subplot; first performed 26 December 1606 at Whitehall.
King of Ashes (novel)
King of Ashes is S.A. Cosby's 2025 Southern noir crime novel about Roman Carruthers, an Atlanta wealth manager who returns to Jefferson Run, Virginia to settle his brother's drug debt with the Black Baron Boys and probe his mother's disappearance.
King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines is H. Rider Haggard's 1885 adventure novel, also called the genesis of lost world fiction, following Allan Quatermain's African expedition to find Solomon's legendary diamond mines.
King Stakh's Wild Hunt
King Stakh's Wild Hunt is a Gothic historical novella by the Belarusian writer Uladzimir Karatkievich, first published in 1964 and widely regarded as a classic of Belarusian literature.
King, Queen, Knave
King, Queen, Knave (Король, дама, валет) is Vladimir Nabokov's second novel, a satire of adultery among Berlin merchants published in Russian in 1928, translated by the author into English in 1968.
Kingdom Come (comics)
Kingdom Come (comics): 1996 four-issue DC Elseworlds limited series by Mark Waid and Alex Ross, a painted near-future story of a retired Justice League returning against amoral new heroes; award-winning, bestselling, and later adapted to audio.
Kinnikuman (キン肉マン)
Kinnikuman (キン肉マン) is Yudetamago's wrestling battle manga about the dame chōjin Kinniku Suguru, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1979-1987 (387 chapters), continuing since 2011 in Weekly Playboy; spawned Kinnikuman II世, 1983 anime, and the 180-million-unit Kinkeshi boom.
Kino's Journey (キノの旅)
Kino's Journey (Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World) is Keiichi Sigsawa's light novel series about traveler Kino and Hermes, a talking motorcycle, visiting countries for three days each; 24 volumes since July 2000, 8.2 million copies, anime in 2003 and 2017.
Kinot
Kinot (Hebrew: קינות; singular kinah) are Hebrew liturgical poems of lament recited on Tisha B'Av, mourning the destruction of the Temples, Jerusalem, and later tragedies including the Holocaust.