title: Villard (imprint)
text: # 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 by Bertelsmann since 1998 and grouped in Penguin Random House since 2013. It 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
  