# Villard (imprint)

Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a publishing imprint of Random House, one of the largest publishing companies in the world, owned in full by Bertelsmann since its acquisition of a final 25% stake in 2019, and grouped in Penguin Random House since 2013. Villard was founded in 1983.
Villard began as an independent imprint of Random House and is currently a sub-imprint of Ballantine Books, itself an imprint of Random House. It was named after a Stanford White brownstone mansion on Madison Avenue that was the home of Random House for twenty years.

## Books

1985
* The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James
1987
* Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, Ricky Jay
* Pattern Crimes, William Bayer
1988
* All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum
1989
* Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom for a Complicated World, Noah Benshea
1990
* Latin for All Occasions, Henry Beard
1991
* Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: Rise and Fall of the Ceauşescus, Edward Behr
1992
* Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Shot John Lennon, Jack Jones
* The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook, Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf
1993
* Different Loving: the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission, Gloria Brame
* Hate on Trial: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi, Morris Dees & Steve Fiffer
* The Fifties, David Halberstam
* Primal Fear, William Diehl
1994
* Behind the Times: Inside the New New York Times, Edwin Diamond.
* Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe, John Boswell
* Saved by the Light: The True Story of a Man who Died Twice and the Profound Revelations He Received, Dannion Brinkley and Paul Perry, ISBN 0-679-43176-4
* Mary Cassatt: A Life, Nancy Mowll Mathews
* The Official NBA Basketball Encyclopedia
1995
* Bone in the Throat, Anthony Bourdain
* The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music. 70 Years of the Songs, the Stars and the Stories, Paul Kingsbury
* Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
1996
* Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
* The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
1997
* Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain.
* Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer
1998
* Children of God, Mary Doria Russell
2000
* The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, written by George Saunders, illustrated by Lane Smith
* Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories, Dan Rhodes
2001
* Necessary Targets, Eve Ensler
2003
* Vagabonding: An uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel, Rolf Potts
* A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance, Jane Juska
2004
* Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, Ken Goffman.
2005
* What We Do Is Secret, Thorn Kief Hillsbery
* Zanesville, Kris Saknussemm
2006
* The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Bobby Henderson
2007
* Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab, written by Melissa Plaut
* Macedonia, written by Harvey Pekar and Heather Roberson, with illustrations by Ed Piskor
* Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies, Brian Coleman
2008
* Nose Down, Eyes Up, Merrill Markoe
* The Big Skinny, Carol Lay
* How Can I Keep From Singing (revised edition), biography of Pete Seeger, by David Dunaway
* The presidential book of lists: from most to least, elected to rejected, worst to cursed: Fascinating facts about our chief executives, Ian Randal Strock
2009
* Farewell, My Subaru, Doug Fine
2010
* I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World, Eve Ensler