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 1988
 * Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, Ricky Jay
 * Pattern Crimes, William Bayer
 * 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 1992
 * Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: Rise and Fall of the Ceauşescus, Edward Behr
 * 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 1997
 * Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
 * The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
 * Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain.
 * Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer

1998 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
 * Children of God, Mary Doria Russell
 * The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, written by George Saunders, illustrated by Lane Smith
 * Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories, Dan Rhodes
 * Necessary Targets, Eve Ensler
 * 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
 * Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House, Ken Goffman.
 * What We Do Is Secret, Thorn Kief Hillsbery
 * Zanesville, Kris Saknussemm
 * The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Bobby Henderson
 * 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