Wylder Windham’s Book Butler Service

Wylder Windham offers a curated HarperCollins Book Butler program for guests to borrow fall reads directly by the pool or in a hammock.

Catskills Literary Getaway

Guests at Wylder Windham can explore top resort reads and local indie shop Briars & Brambles Books during their stay.

Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray

Chosen Family spans 18 chaotic years and explores long-term female friendship dynamics with raw, messy energy.

“And why is it that the things we really mean are usually the hardest to put into words?”

Last Night Was Killer

Last Night Was Killer follows a single mom solving a murder she may or may not have committed.

“Trying to have a lighthearted night out during an epic rough patch had somehow resulted in this, me, disturbingly hungover, with a dead man in my trunk.”

Love in Color

Love in Color retells mythological tales with lush prose and emphasis on female agency and mutual respect.

“Love is the prism through which I view the world. I truly believe it binds and propels us… Love is that light.”

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone features a meta-narration that explicitly lays out mystery writing rules.

“Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once.”

The Children by Melissa Albert

The Children blends dark fairy-tale ambiance with intricate prose exploring family, memory and survival.

“The children who grew up on these books and reread them later often say the same thing: These are darker than I remember.”

Briars & Brambles Books

Briars & Brambles Books is a local indie bookstore owned by Jen Schwartz, a former English teacher and school dean.

Maggie O’Farrell’s Land

Maggie O’Farrell’s Land explores family, memory and survival in 19th-century Ireland during the Great Hunger.