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

External links

• Villard- publisher's website. Archived June 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

References