Books to Read to Have an Intoxibella Summer
Please, please, please tell me I am not the only one who is obsessed with Modelland! Modelland is a 2011 dystopian YA book written by Tyra Banks (yes, America’s Next Top Model Tyra Banks) and everything I have heard about this book is certifiably insane. It follows one Tookie de la Crème as she is recruited to the elite boarding school known as Modelland where she will have to compete to become an Intoxibella – a group of the most celebrated models in the world. I’m obsessed.
I want to read Modelland so badly, but copies are going for hundreds if not thousands of dollars and the hold list at the library is so long, I won’t be getting my hands on this thing until 2029. So what have I done instead? I’ve collected a list of books I think would make for the ultimate Intoxibella reading list. Because I’m out here trying to have an Intoxibella summer! What does that mean? I don’t fully know, because I haven’t been able to read Modelland. So it’s actually just a list of some of my favorite dystopian novels. Also Gossip Girl because fashion. And isn’t Gossip Girl a kind of dystopia?
Girl, I don’t know what I’m doing either.
When Angel, the youngest member of the flock, is kidnapped and taken back to the School, her friends set off to rescue her, facing off against the half-human, half-wolf “Erasers” designed to stop them. Their journey takes them closer and closer to the secrets of their past … and their future—one where Max is responsible for saving the world.
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When sixteen-year-old submersible racer Leyla McQueen is chosen to participate in the city’s prestigious annual marathon, she sees an opportunity to save her father, who has been arrested on false charges. The Prime Minister promises the champion whatever their heart desires. But the race takes an unexpected turn, forcing Leyla to make an impossible choice.
Now she must brave unfathomable waters and defy a corrupt government determined to keep its secrets, all the while dealing with a guarded, hotheaded companion she never asked for in the first place. If Leyla fails to discover the truths at the heart of her world, or falls prey to her own fears, she risks capture-or worse. And her father will be lost to her forever.
Sarah Jac Crow and James Holt have fallen in love working in the endless fields that span a bone-dry Southwest in the near future—a land that’s a little bit magical, deeply dangerous, and bursting with secrets. To protect themselves, they’ve learned to work hard and, above all, keep their love hidden from the people who might use it against them. Then, just when Sarah Jac and James have settled in and begun saving money for the home they dream of near the coast, a horrible accident sends them on the run. With no choice but to start over on a new, possibly cursed ranch, the delicate balance of their lives begins to give way—and they may have to pay a frighteningly high price for their love.
All the Wind in the World is a breathtaking tale of dread and danger, romance and redemption.
When her brother, at the age of five, is snatched in a vicious raid, Glori and her best friend, Su, do the unthinkable — covertly infiltrate the City of Beasts to get him back. What’s meant to be a smash-and-grab job quickly becomes the adventure of a lifetime as the fees team up with a fast-talking, T-shirt cannon-wielding beast named Sway, and Glori starts to see that there’s more to males, and her own history, than she’s been taught.
In this extraordinary debut from Lyndsay Ely, the West is once again wild after a Second Civil War fractures the U.S. into a broken, dangerous land. Pity’s struggle against the dark and twisted underbelly of a corrupt city will haunt you long after the final bullet is shot.
Lona is wrenched brutally into an existence that is suddenly all her own, one that promises liberty and love, but also holds threatening secrets. And it turns out that there is a heavy price to pay for straying from her assigned path.
In Stray, Edgar-award winning master of suspense Monica Hesse brings us a richly imagined speculative world where there are no easy answers–and no easy way out.
Full of unexpected twists and quick-thinking heroes, The Enemy is a fast-paced, white-knuckle tale of survival in the face of unimaginable horror.
No one has set foot on Earth in centuries—until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth’s radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents—considered expendable by society—are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life … or it could be a suicide mission.
Clarke was arrested for treason, though she’s haunted by the memory of what she really did.
Wells, the chancellor’s son, came to Earth for the girl he loves—but will she ever forgive him?
Reckless Bellamy fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe.
And Glass managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth.
Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the Hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind’s last hope.
Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep—sometimes with each other.
S is back from boarding school, and if we aren’t careful, she’s going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn’t fit into, steal our boyfriends’ hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I’ll be watching closely …
You know you love me,
xoxo Gossip Girl