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Ballantine Books

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Ballantine Books is one of America’s largest publishers of hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market paperback books. Founded in 1952, Ballantine was acquired by Random House in 1973. Its imprints include Ballantine Books, Ballantine Reader’s Circle, Del Rey, Del Rey/LucasBooks, Fawcett, Ivy, One World, and Wellspring. Ballantine Books includes a backlist of more than 3,000 titles.

BALLANTINE BOOKS
Ballantine’s list encompasses a large, diverse offering in a variety of formats. The hardcover program is particularly strong in commercial fiction, health, diet, psychology, history, and biography. Ballantine successes include Sugar Busters! by H. Leighton Steward; Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg; The Formula by Gene and Joyce Daoust, Henry VIII: The King and His Court by Alison Weir, The Whitechapel Conspiracy by Anne Perry (who writes two novels a year), and the novels of Jeff Shaara (Gods and Generals, The Last Full Measure, Gone for Soldiers, and Rise to Rebellion, his latest bestseller). Current titles include The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen; The Manhattan Hunt Club by John Saul; and Best Friends, Worst Enemies by Michael Thompson, bestselling author of Raising Cain. Upcoming lists will feature hardcover novels by Richard North Patterson and Kristin Hannah. The Ballantine list also includes an increasing number of such literary novels and short story collections as the recently published The Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner and Among the Missing by Dan Chaon.

The mass market list includes such bestselling authors as Lorenzo Carcaterra, John Case, Robert Crais, William Diehl, Fannie Flagg, Sue Grafton, Kristin Hannah, John Irving, Jonathan Kellerman, Richard North Patterson, Anne Rice, Edward Rutherfurd, John Saul, Stephen King, and Anne Tyler.

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1) 2010: Odyssey Two
2) Bearing an Hourglass
3) The Beasts of Tarzan
4) Being a Green Mother
5) Castle Roogna
6) Centaur Aisle
7) The Chessmen of Mars
8) A Clockwork Orange
9) Crewel Lye
10) Crisis in Space
11) Deryni Rising
12) Dragon on a Pedestal
13) The Empire Strikes Back
14) Fahrenheit 451
15) Farthest Star
16) The Fellowship of the Ring
17) The Flight of the Horse
18) Flint
19) The Flying Sorcerers
20) The Garden of Evil
21) Golem In the Gears
22) Gormenghast
23) Heir of Sea and Fire
24) High Deryni
25) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
26) The Hobbit
27) The Illearth War
28) Invasion of the Ormazoids
29) Jungle Tales of Tarzan
30) Jurassic Park
31) Life, The Universe And Everything
32) Lord Foul's Bane
33) The Man Who Risked His Partner
34) The Master Mind of Mars
35) Mission to Venus
36) Mostly Harmless
37) Night Mare
38) Ogre, Ogre
39) On a Pale Horse
40) The One Tree
41) The Power that Preserves
42) Prince of Annwn
43) The Princess Bride
44) Protector
45) Race Against Time
46) Recovery
47) Rendezvous with Rama
48) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
49) The Return of Tarzan
50) The Return of the King
51) Roadmarks
52) Search for the Doctor
53) The Shockwave Rider
54) The Silmarillion
55) So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
56) Sole Survivor
57) The Son of Tarzan
58) The Source of Magic
59) A Spell For Chameleon
60) Star Trek Log One
61) Star Trek Log Three
62) Tarzan and the "Foreign Legion"
63) Tarzan and the Ant Men
64) Tarzan and the Castaways
65) Tarzan and the City of Gold
66) Tarzan and the Forbidden City
67) Tarzan and the Golden Lion
68) Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
69) Tarzan and the Leopard Men
70) Tarzan and the Lost Empire
71) Tarzan and the Madman
72) Tarzan at the Earth's Core
73) Tarzan the Magnificent
74) Tarzan the Terrible
75) Tarzan the Untamed
76) Tarzan Triumphant
77) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
78) Tarzan's Quest
79) Thuvia, Maid of Mars
80) The Tolkien Reader
81) Tolkien: A Biography
82) Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings"
83) The Two Towers
84) Under Pressure
85) Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
86) White Gold Wielder
87) Wielding a Red Sword
88) With a Tangled Skein
89) World of Ptavvs
90) The Wounded Land
91) Ylesia

1) The Return of Tarzan (1 Jul 1963)
2) Tarzan the Terrible (1 Jul 1963)
3) Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1 Jul 1963)
4) Tarzan and the Ant Men (1 Jul 1963)
5) Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1 Sep 1963)
6) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1 Sep 1963)
7) The Chessmen of Mars (1 Oct 1963)
8) Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1 Oct 1963)
9) The Beasts of Tarzan (1 Nov 1963)
10) The Son of Tarzan (1 Nov 1963)
11) Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1 Nov 1963)
12) Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1 Nov 1963)
13) Tarzan the Untamed (1 Nov 1963)
14) The Master Mind of Mars (1 Dec 1963)
15) Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1 Mar 1964)
16) Tarzan Triumphant (1 Mar 1964)
17) Tarzan and the City of Gold (1 Mar 1964)
18) Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1 Mar 1964)
19) Tarzan's Quest (1 Mar 1964)
20) Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1 Mar 1964)
21) Tarzan the Magnificent (1 Mar 1964)
22) Tarzan and the "Foreign Legion" (1 Mar 1964)
23) Tarzan and the Madman (1 Feb 1965)
24) Tarzan and the Castaways (1 Jul 1965)
25) The Fellowship of the Ring (1 Jan 1968)
26) The Two Towers (1 Jan 1968)
27) The Return of the King (1 Jan 1968)
28) The Flying Sorcerers (1 Aug 1971)
29) The Fellowship of the Ring (1 Jan 1973)
30) The Two Towers (1 Jan 1973)
31) The Return of the King (1 Jan 1973)
32) The Flight of the Horse (1 Jan 1974)
33) Under Pressure (12 Feb 1974)
34) Protector (1 Mar 1974)
35) The Hobbit (1 Sep 1974)
36) Gormenghast (1 Oct 1974)
37) Prince of Annwn (1 Nov 1974)
38) High Deryni (1 Nov 1974)
39) Farthest Star (1 Feb 1975)
40) The Tolkien Reader (1 May 1975)
41) Star Trek Log One (1 May 1975)
42) Star Trek Log Three (1 Jul 1975)
43) The Shockwave Rider (1 Mar 1976)
44) Rendezvous with Rama (12 Mar 1976)
45) Tolkien: A Biography (12 Aug 1978)
46) Tolkien: A Look Behind "The Lord of the Rings" (1 Nov 1978)
47) Heir of Sea and Fire (1 Nov 1978)
48) Prince of Annwn (1 Nov 1978)
49) A Spell For Chameleon (12 Sep 1979)
50) The Source of Magic (12 Dec 1979)
51) Castle Roogna (1 Jul 1980)
52) Roadmarks (1 Aug 1980)
53) The Illearth War (1 Nov 1980)
54) The Power that Preserves (1 Nov 1980)
55) Deryni Rising (1 Nov 1980)
56) The Tolkien Reader (1 Feb 1981)
57) The Hobbit (1 Apr 1981)
58) The Fellowship of the Ring (1 Apr 1981)
59) The Two Towers (1 Apr 1981)
60) The Return of the King (1 Apr 1981)
61) The Wounded Land (1 May 1981)
62) The One Tree (1 Jan 1982)
63) Centaur Aisle (1 Jan 1982)
64) Lord Foul's Bane (1 Mar 1982)
65) The One Tree (1 Apr 1982)
66) World of Ptavvs (1 Sep 1982)
67) Ogre, Ogre (1 Oct 1982)
68) White Gold Wielder (1 Jan 1983)
69) Night Mare (1 Jan 1983)
70) White Gold Wielder (1 Apr 1983)
71) The Silmarillion (1 Jun 1983)
72) A Clockwork Orange (12 Jul 1983)
73) 2010: Odyssey Two (1 Feb 1984)
74) On a Pale Horse (1 Aug 1984)
75) Crewel Lye (1 Jan 1985)
76) Bearing an Hourglass (1 Oct 1985)
77) Dragon on a Pedestal (12 Dec 1985)
78) Golem In the Gears (12 Jan 1986)
79) Search for the Doctor (1 Aug 1986)
80) Crisis in Space (1 Aug 1986)
81) The Garden of Evil (1 Sep 1986)
82) The Man Who Risked His Partner (12 Sep 1986)
83) Mission to Venus (1 Oct 1986)
84) Invasion of the Ormazoids (1 Nov 1986)
85) Race Against Time (1 Dec 1986)
86) Wielding a Red Sword (1 Dec 1987)
87) The Fellowship of the Ring (1 Jan 1988)
88) The Two Towers (1 Jan 1988)
89) The Return of the King (1 Jan 1988)
90) Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth (12 Aug 1988)
91) With a Tangled Skein (1 Oct 1988)
92) Being a Green Mother (1 Oct 1988)
93) The Fellowship of the Ring (1 Jan 1991)
94) Flint (1 Jul 1991)
95) The Hobbit (1 Jan 1992)
96) Jurassic Park (1 Mar 1993)
97) Mostly Harmless (1 Nov 1993)
98) The Empire Strikes Back (1 Aug 1994)
99) Fahrenheit 451 (1 Feb 1995)
100) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (1 Nov 1995)
101) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1 Nov 1995)
102) Life, The Universe And Everything (1 Nov 1995)
103) Fahrenheit 451 (1 Aug 1996)
104) 2010: Odyssey Two (1 Feb 1997)
105) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (1 Jun 1997)
106) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1 Jun 1997)
107) Life, The Universe And Everything (1 Jun 1997)
108) Sole Survivor (1 Dec 1997)
109) So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish (1 Apr 1999)
110) The Princess Bride (20 Oct 1999)
111) The Fellowship of the Ring (1 Jan 2000)
112) The Two Towers (1 Jan 2000)
113) The Return of the King (1 Jan 2000)
114) Mostly Harmless (1 Feb 2000)
115) Recovery (1 Oct 2001)
116) Lord Foul's Bane (1 Dec 2001)
117) Ylesia (1 Sep 2002)

All *Authors for this Publisher

- Douglas Adams
- Piers Anthony
- Jane Baker
- Pip Baker
- Ray Bradbury
- John Brunner
- Anthony Burgess
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Humphrey Carpenter
- Lin Carter
- Arthur C Clarke
- Michael Crichton
- Troy Denning
- Stephen R Donaldson
- William Emms
- Alan Dean Foster
- David Gerrold
- Donald F Glut
- William Goldman
- Frank Herbert
- Michael Holt
- Dean R Koontz
- Katherine Kurtz
- Louis L'Amour
- Dave Martin
- Philip Martin
- Patricia A McKillip
- Larry Niven
- Mervyn Peake
- Frederik Pohl
- Reed Stephens
- Christopher Tolkien
- J R R Tolkien
- Evangeline Walton
- Walter Jon Williams
- Jack Williamson
- Roger Zelazny

* All listed on this site - not a comprehensive list for the publisher.