As I said on my Worst Reads of 2019 post, I’m a pretty easy to please reader.  I tend to get swept away in the story and for the most part I enjoy almost everything I read.  So when it comes to choosing the best books I read this year, I have to admit that I had a really hard time.  There are so, so many good books that I read over this year that it was hard to choose the best, and even harder to narrow it down to the top 5.  So in order to do this, I gave myself some criteria. In order to end up on my Top 5 Reads of 2019 list, the book couldn’t be a re-read.  It also couldn’t be a sequel, and so I will admit that I cheated a little bit and made a list of the best sequels I read in 2019 just to make narrowing this down a little easier.  With those criteria in mind, I was still left with a fair bit of a list, so I had to narrow it down some more.  That was the hard part, but I was able to do it.  Below the cut, in no particular order, you will find my five best reads of 2019.