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: [77, 54, 219, 222, 189, 244, 238, 208, 24, 87, 104, 88, 290, 91, 121, 131, 60, 23, 283, 159], k=19
Example Output: 24

Example Input: [95, 19, 128, 226, 34, 281, 277, 298, 229, 90, 155, 256, 221, 158, 43, 84, 180, 156, 185, 159], k=20
Example Output: 19

Example Input: [263, 254, 111, 168, 142, 236, 193, 58, 89, 212, 28, 175, 62, 92, 287, 87, 110, 252, 213, 226], k=11
Example Output:
168