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

Input: Consider Input: [88, 138, 230, 71, 119, 274, 257, 233, 10, 293, 49, 245, 35, 205, 36, 161, 63, 147, 87, 114], k=8

Output: 88

Input: Consider Input: [165, 225, 23, 126, 79, 185, 30, 208, 275, 131, 296, 238, 171, 229, 174, 145, 24, 187, 159, 218], k=19

Output: 275

Input: Consider Input: [129, 75, 285, 265, 190, 68, 56, 171, 228, 174, 200, 208, 134, 84, 210, 48, 272, 47, 199, 116], k=15
Output: 208