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, 252, 289, 108, 20, 117, 191, 25, 240, 275, 124, 63, 60, 97, 166, 152, 81, 248, 249, 156], k=5
Example Output: 248

Example Input: [183, 214, 202, 269, 104, 166, 12, 209, 194, 275, 62, 53, 276, 126, 23, 293, 65, 120, 246, 282], k=20
Example Output: 12

Example Input: [26, 136, 97, 185, 168, 152, 171, 299, 118, 47, 130, 250, 243, 64, 241, 219, 229, 60, 94, 134], k=9
Example Output:
168