BATB score: 10/10 💋⭐️💃 A stunning novel by Frances Cha on modern day Korea - the idealistic desire for plastic beauty, the strides and sacrifices women has to endure, and the definition of love and affairs. Best to: an accurate reflection of modern day societal expectations for a woman - find a rich husband, make money, manage high social circles, save up for aesthetic plastic surgery, deal with in-laws, make a son, and calibrate about maternity leave and career consequence

BATB score: 10/10 🐭🤍👨‍🍳 Daniel Keyes' masterpiece written in 1959, read in 2021 by BATB (+62 years later). Lovable character, engaging journey for self-enlightenment and concluding that IQ quotient is a mere measurement of unnecessary things. Best to: a true timeless classic from a pure talented author - how could you compose something that is still 100% relatable to the general public +62 years later? #dayum Best for: you better read this if you haven't #FOMO ; for anyon

BATB score: 10/10 🌟 Life-changing book for all people managers. Are you a genius or are you a genius maker? Best to: concise, tangible, practical 💯 how the best leaders make everyone smarter; two types of managers out there: diminishers and multipliers; multipliers get 2X from their team and builds a legacy as a genius maker Best for: should be a required read for all people managers; raise your hands if you have asked for more headcount yet your team is working hard but no

BATB score: 10/10 🤍 relatable in every way; thank you #MattHaig for writing this book to shed light on depression as an illness and as common brain mishap Best to: beautifully personal and eloquently elaborative of someone going through depression, comprising of inner demons and anxiety that makes living difficult Best for: everyone should read this regardless of whether you are a sufferer, a survivor of, or merely a fellow friend of anyone going through depression #BeAnAlly

BATB score: 10/10 💯🥺👏 my heart hurts. a sad, emotional, and heartfelt memoir for Chika - a bubbly 7-year-old battling brain tumour DIPG, the hopeful journeys of legal guardians, and the feelings left behind. Best to: Mitch Albom is an amazing author in conveying emotions and affections in very simple writing; easily digestible by readers and, for sure, strike a chord in readers' hearts 💯💞 Best for: if you are going to read only one book this year, read this book. If you

BATB score: 10/10 🖤 nobody writes about our inevitable mortality like Dr. Atul Gawande #bravo 👏 Best to: our impulse is to fight death - chemo, surgery, sutures, bring it; there is always something more that the doctors can do. but the fact that we are trying so hard to fix things may be shortening or worsening the time we hardly have left. so is it quantity or quality? Best for: all of us. eye-opening; ask your loved ones today "if time becomes short, what is most importan

BATB score: 10/10 🤩❤️🔥 Mitch Albom is a hands-down brilliant author #hallelujah Best to: writings from the heart that touches souls; a very simple storyline yet makes you think about heaven, hope, and love; a feel good book that makes you believe in the beauty of life again Best for: do read Mitch Albom - for people trying to develop a productive reading habit, you can read this book in one sitting Best as: a lot of quotable snippets Best quotes: “There are two stories for

BATB score: 10/10 💙 This book changed my life the first time I read it in 2018. Re-reading this book today in 2021, now that I am two step higher on the corporate ladder, the lessons are even more legit and critical. Best to: an appropriate slap-in-the-face. Stop thinking that the world is just, that your talents and contributions would be recognized and a promotion is due, that you don't have to play office politics to be noticed, that you will not corrupt your way up, that

BATB score: 10/10 🐲 Best to: 💯 well-written; a harmonious composition of storytelling from global leaders and Reid Hoffman’s analysis and key takeaways Best for: legit 💚 lucky dragon 🐉 book for entrepreneurs, business leaders, and social enterprise c-suites Best as: strongly recommend; Reid Hoffman’s 2021 comeback; charismatic leaders to take a selfie with this book Best quotes: “it’s easy to kill a product that’s failing; it’s harder and more strategic to kill one that l

BATB score: 10/10 💙💙💙 Bravo Matt Haig 👏 💯🙇‍♀️ thank you for making us appreciate our stupid little life and the meek joy of living in such a beautifully narrated book Best to: so, you have as many lives as you have possibilities. Different made-choices lead to different outcomes. If there was one thing that was done differently, your life would have been a different story. So, with infinite choices, what is the best way to live? Best for: people experiencing midlife cri

BATB score: 10/10 📕‼🔺 well-written 👏 the different lives of North Koreans: the selected Pyongyang elite, the starving Chongjin shameful caste, the defectors, the loyalist, the real tears and the saliva ones Best to: the best introduction to North Korea's communism rule, dictatorship regime, 360 propaganda, blinded loyalty, flawed management, starvation, hopeless deaths, and survival act of defectors Best for: politics and human rights aside; North Korea's Kim-family dictat

BATB score: 10/10 🏆 the most important money book in mankind about having 'enough' and so anything more is mere incremental but I am already comfortable Best to: clarity in 'JOMO' joy of missing out when your friends post on social media about their high gains on crypto and/or stock investment as it's probably because of pure luck that can not be repeated Best for: all of us; questioner of 'meaning of life' and one's relationship with money Best as: the best investment strat

BATB score: 10/10 💕 the best autobiography written in mankind, the making, the struggles, the crack, the enlightenment of Will Smith 😎 very clever that Will Smith wrote this book, I respect his legacy even more 💪 Best to: it's about not wanting to be second in anything, about being a dreamer with wings that outshines your family/marriage, and about 'enough' happiness after tremendous success Best for: if you think Will Smith was a great actor in the movie 'The Pursuit of H

BATB score: 10/10 💯 a critical and an essential read on mental work-life balance (as physical work-life is so yesterday's concept) Best to: you know how work continues to linger in your mind on weekends? ya, that's no good; unfortunately in some cultures it is called 'dedication', 'devotion', 'determination', or even 'above and beyond' - so embarrassing, i know #badinfluence Best for: don't brag about working overtime, over the weekend, or pulling all-nighters, it sucks and

BATB score: 10/10 🦾🚀🤖 This book is so important, a critical read, a hidden gem 💎. It's reading 10 visions (like a fortune teller) on what our future would look like. Dude, it can not get any more crazy mind-blown than this. 🤯 Everything is in this book: GDPR, AR/VR/XR, crypto mining, deepfake, AI job displacement, natural language computing, cyber security, and omg meaning of life. This book is smarter than all of us. Best to: You know how Mark Zuckerburg calls out 'Meta

BATB score 10/10 🎤🤩👏 extremely important read covering the critical 9 tips and techniques to "ideas worth spreading" talks; I am so sorry that I was too arrogant to give this a read since 8 years ago 🙏 #mybad Best to: it doesn't get any clearer than this; literally 9 things on what you need to do, why, and how 💯 to be a memorable superstar speaker 👏 Best for: amateur speakers who needs the how-to and professional speakers who needs a refresher (since it's been so long s

BATB score: 10/10 💎💎💎 this book is a hidden gem! business schools should include this book in their syllabus asap; I swear, I believe I have to re-read this book and make sure that I have squeezed out all of it's critical essences into my brain Best to: a complete explanation, constructive case studies, holistic theories, and hands-on practices on starting, keeping, and growing network effects for your consumer tech business 💯 Best for: anyone in consumer tech, business g

BATB score 10/10 💙💙💙 to all women and LGBTQIA+ who are climbing the corporate ladder in this patriarchal bro-hood, you MUST READ this book; it does not get any more honest, real, critical, and actionable than this 💯 Best to: hey baby girl, let's have a real talk about what you need to do to get on top. don't fall victim to the imposter syndrome, cinderella syndrome, queen B fallacy - f$ck it, kill them all 👸 Best for: hey baby girl, I don't think you will be ready for wh

BATB score: 10/10 🏠🏚🛖 wow just wow. 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Bill Gates' recommended read wow just wow. Best to: sociologist Matthew Desmond worked his ass off for this book! his hands-on on-ground research to share the stories of 8 struggling families evicted and in deep poverty in Milwaukee 👏 in-depth data collection from years of observations, surveys, and interviews then written in such an emotionally touching book with a little bit of psychological

BATB score: 10/10 💛 An extremely heartfelt memoir about a mother’s influence on a daughter to live a dream that she never had (yet not at all the daughter’s dream) Best for: daughters with mother issues that metamorphose into forever self-doubt and low self-esteem of never being good enough Best to: quickly check “Jennette McCurdy Through the Years 2005-2014 | NickRewind”, “Sam Puckett’s Fried Chicken Addiction”, and “Sam Puckett’s Butter Sock” on Youtube to witness her chil