I wanted to show the best YA books of 2010, but I wanted to add a little twist. So, here we have a visualization from Many Eyes that lists the ALA’s Top Ten YA Books for 2010. However, I used Worldcat to tell me how many copies libraries around the world had of each book as an indicator of popularity (at least for the library crowd!) to dictate the size of the title. Put ‘em together and what have you got? A cool visual image of what libraries and librarians think the very best books for Young Adults are, at least for this year.

In case you can’t read all of the titles, here they are (in order from most copies in libraries to least):
When you reach me
Written in bone: Buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Alligator Bayou
Marcelo in the real world
Lips touch: Three times
The Orange Houses
Stitches: A memoir
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
Demon’s Lexicon
The Great Wide Sea