In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth largest element in the input list.

Example Input: [231, 186, 259, 217, 158, 138, 145, 76, 131, 220, 129, 187, 47, 12, 293, 144, 155, 200, 279, 108], k=13
Example Output: 144

Example Input: [248, 96, 267, 173, 279, 138, 170, 221, 29, 83, 159, 50, 289, 94, 135, 108, 197, 144, 154, 219], k=16
Example Output: 96

Example Input: [183, 36, 88, 201, 229, 26, 21, 182, 12, 197, 148, 117, 213, 261, 86, 97, 82, 57, 129, 276], k=12
Example Output:
97

