BATB score: 9/10 *BATB re-read still legit but less wow* Best to: RIP Bill Campbell, you set the bar really high on people manager roles and responsibilities above and beyond on all fronts Best as: a playbook for leaders for every office situation imaginable Best for: when they strip you off your title, do people still follow you? If yes, congratulations, you are a true leader. BATB lingering thought: as leaders, when you clap for your team, clap with energy and genuine enthu

BATB score: 9/10 👏 BATB re-reads Best to: easier said than done but yes three great leadership one-minute tricks; clear goals, timely praising, constructive re-directs BATB lingering thought: but does it work with dinosaurs 🦖 🦕 ready to retire in too-big-to-fail conglomerates? it’s my turn now, globally groomed millennials hired to be the change in antique companies 💪 among Gen X legacy Best for: so what kind of leader do you want to be? Best as: playbook when leading a

BATB score: 9/10 A slap-in-the-face reality self-check book of how to live as is but happier. #AndThenYouDie “We are so materially well off, yet so psychologically tormented in so many low-level and shallow ways.” - common sense made common A book with the most f-words in its sarcastic self-help literature. Best for: people who are finding the meaning of everyday / depressed sad souls, which is truly all of us. Read It!

BATB score: 9/10 Happy to Support. Quotes from 10,000+ strangers of New York. Reminder of how different but yet similar 7 billion homo sapiens are on Planet Earth. Best for: lost stars

BATB score: 9.9/10 Legit 10. Hilarious. Written by an ex-Googler. Follow the tips and techniques for guaranteed more hysterical meetings Best for: a New Year's gift / a birthday gift. a book that you leave in the restroom for entertainment passing time while passing gas.

BATB score: 9.2/10 “One who has a WHY to live for can bear almost any HOW.” A psychologist explains what went through his mind as a dying Jewish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. Human survival instinct, adaptation to hunger/pain, the concept of and the lack of hope. Deepdive down to when the Jewish prisoners were finally freed, they ran out to celebrate their freedom for a few hours, and by sundown, came back to sleep in the old camp grounds. Psychotherapeutic story-tel

BATB score: 9.5/10 Reality slap-in-the-face book for all those optimistic Joys from Inside Out to WAKE UP! A reminder that the world has never been fair and how your hope to bring back justice and world peace already made you a loser. “Power” why some people has it - and others don’t. A book about how being smart is never enough, how being friends or liked by everyone gets you nowhere, and why power on top of others is what you should aim to have. Filled with anecdotes from l

BATB score: 9.9/10 Happy to read, happier while reading and happiest to have read. Best for: Ali Wong's fanclubs who LOL or ROFL to her Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife stand-ups. You MUST watch those Netflix stand-ups first! Best to: listen to her read her book to you [Ali Wong narrated the audiobook herself]. And just turn the pages along for sentimental reasons. Random note: I love how her husband gets to write the last 10 pages of her book. Her husband is gold!

BATB score: 9/10 Miss Universe prep-book: smile, strategic remembrance of names, lavish appreciative statements, always demonstrate tact, and wave. THIS BOOK IS LEGIT ❣️ *yet (1) you need a lot of EQ bandwidth to put these principles into practice and never ever slip #BeyondHuman (2) 1/4 of the principles are not mutually exclusive collectively exhaustive #MECE Best for: insecure beauty queens or charismatic novices who 100% cares about how others think of them 💞 #thatme Bes

BATB score: 9/10 for Lale's 9 lives #areyouacat My heart hurts for his series of unfortunate events where one's deliberate life goals (a scholar, a good citizen, a millionaire) were reduce to a mere 'to stay alive' within 24 hours. Best for: me to just die from day 1 at the camp - I can not Best as: a reminder that the scariest living thing is us humans and the most horrible things are from what us humans can do and chose to do to us humans #AllLifeMatters Best to: I don't kn

BATB score: 9/10 🐋🦑🐢 The most subtle and adorable way to alarm you about the effects of climate change to the polar bears, the orcas, and the narwhals. Best for: any kid who dreamt to be a marine biologist but had to succumb to his/her asian parents and became a doctor, a finance audit, and/or any typical all-star office employee instead 🧑‍💻👨‍💻 Best as: okay, mid-adult-children-book. it's illustration -> definitely too cute but its description -> hey-yo scientific big

BATB score: 9.5/10 Behavioural economics and the science behind 'when' to volunteer to go first, to get married, to quit a job, to get a divorce, etc. Best for: 19, 29, 39, 49 year olds trying to finish a book (and hoping to claim that one has a healthy reading lifestyle) before one turns to yet another decade old Best to: know that “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” - Miles Davis Best as: a book 'nappucino' - a very simple read between other heavy books Note:

BATB score: 9.99/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ whaa they've divorced. Melinda Gates, what you've done and shared is eye/heart-opening to how privileged and ignorant we all can be. The stories, the thought process, the bottom-up methodology, and the passion is heartfelt. #philantrophy Best for: "When you have more than you need at a material level, what's next? Where do our gifts connect with a need in the world?" - Melinda Gates #fangirlfainting Best as: a reminder that there are so many more im

BATB score: 9/10 Best for: Laura Clery's diehard fans; you must have binge watched Laura Clery's Facebook Watch videos prior to considering this book Best as: there has always been an addict lingering in us; a first hand account of an addict, to sobriety, to success - a personal anecdote (that many would not admit) from looking at ceilings to feeling this is it (the end of life) to success the way we define it Best for: all of us to start watching Laura Clery's Facebook video

BATB score: 9/10 🥺 Beautifully written; bites your core with only 48 pages. Best as: this short masterpiece was in remembrance of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach safety in Europe in September 2015; come on, you remember that image with the tiny baby boy face down washed ashore? that's him. All proceeds of this book goes to UNHCR. Best for: Khaled Hosseini's diehard fans. Hosseini is definitely something - how

BATB score: 9.5/10 🙌 James Clear, this book of yours is 💯 very clear! Best to: understand why just saying that you want to lose weight or you want to be healthy does not usually stick; this clear and concise book gives you the 1-2-3 step on how to build habits and be a better person 101 for dummies Best for: anyone who gets this: 1% worse every day for one year: 0.99^365 = 00.03 1% better every day for one year: 1.01^365 = 37.78 Best as: “Professionals stick to the schedule

BATB score: 9/10 👨‍⚕️🔪💉🧬🚑 a journey of one's lifetime as a forensic pathologist - from passion, ambitions, on-the-job challenges, being challenged, solving cases, and making a difference 💯 Best to: so what's the time of death? so how did she/he died? is this murder or manslaughter? is it SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) or infanticide? Was it the cops? the mother? the boyfriend? that killed the victim? Best for: anyone who may be bored of one's own career path and wa

BATB score: 9.5/10 🌑 *Disclaimer* this book is not for everyone. this book reads you and of what your mind is capable of - unlike other books that you read. #excruciating Best to: this book is dark and sick yet a well-narrated novel; eloquent and efficient in moving feelings - trauma sincerely heartfelt; covering incidents that are vividly scary and painful #agonizing Not an easy book to read. 700+ pages of an incredibly detailed life journey with underlying mental issues. Y

BATB score: 9/10 ❣️ Written in 1989, developed into a film in 1993 (7.8 IMDb) #dayum Kazuo Ishiguro aka The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 Best to: beautiful composition with eloquently sophisticated narration; a good juxtaposition of an affable main character's reminiscence of self 'dignity' and 'loyalty' to one's master - worthy of being a required reading for a literature class Best for: Lords and ladies of Darlington Hall, Oxfordshire; I feel very posh and of great statur

BATB score: 9/10 💙 Best to: a twist to you only live once #yolo, live today like it's your last, the art of not giving a f*ck, and other time is finite mantras Best for: over-achievers, move fast rushers, high productivity zombies to take a chill pill 💊 Best as: we only have four thousand weeks; i am on my 1616/4000 week; with that said, am I living my current week the way I utmost want to? Best quote: “even the winners in our achievement-obsessed culture - the ones who mak