BATB score: 4/10 🌸 Best for: wah Drew Barrymore really wrote this memoir for herself and nobody else as the stories only matters to her and nobody else Best to: what it means to be famous for being famous is you can write up a book; promote it with your name and disregard the content Best as: Drew Barrymore’s milking that passive income Best quote: “I wanted to be a good girl, and I wanted goodness to be the theme of my life and my work.”

BATB score: 4/10 🥂 Best to: whenever you are in doubt on whether you are an alcoholic Best for: ahh, I am an alcoholic Best as: or am I just an alcohol enthusiast? Best quotes: “to be a better version of myself and at worst to get some quiet in my brain” “I need friends who understand my limitations and have lowered their expectations.”

BATB score: 8.5/10 💙 *reader discretion advised* this book on anxiety and panic attacks can trigger anxiety and panic attacks 🫨 Best to: as a national correspondent queued to be on LIVE television in five, four, [mouth reads] three, two, one; are your hands sweaty? is your heart rate rising? is your mouth quivering? why is the perfection stigma so psychologically decapitating? Best for: anyone who can relate to this quote > “Why was it that I seemed to be more afraid of the

BATB score: 6/10 🌸 Best as: romantic comedy pastime read; everything that is of some meaningful essence, BATB has typed them out under ‘Best Quotes’ below 🫠 Best to: could it be that we are making ‘life’ overly complicated than what ‘life’ intends to be? BATB lingering thought: not a forty-something f##k up but a thirty-something f##k up; it just gets younger and younger Best for: anyone who needs to write daily ‘three things you are grateful for’ just to keep them content

BATB score: 6/10 🫥 love the fun fact scientific research references; hate the personal vlogs Best to: one year happiness project with monthly OKRs to appreciate the mundane and be a kinder person Best for: happy people are scientifically proven to be more physically attractive 😎 Best as: a very slow book for endless mellow rainy days Best quotes: “To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.” “We hugged for at

BATB score: 1/10 💔 the book title has nothing to do with anything in the book Best as: Busy Philipps diary written for Busy Philipps; no tangible key takeaway just an FYI recollection of things that happened from teen pregnancy, to actress auditioning, to instagram stories, to Trump - this book does not change lives Best for: Busy Philipps and nobody else Best to: what did you want your readers to takeaway from this book, could have been a really good start before writing th

BATB score: 8/10 🤩 *Pulitzer Prize Winner 2023 for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism; Hua Hsu is a second-generation Taiwanese American immigrant* Best to: eloquently written *clap clap* captivating becoming-of-age memoir with a little tragedy; there were moments when I was bored but it’s art BATB lingering thought: so how would you describe friendship? “Everybody likes something - a song, a movie, a TV show - so you choose not to; this is how

BATB score: 1/10 😤 *reader discretion advised* just because you are someone sorta famous doesn’t mean your life is worthy of a book Best as: book title “Things I Should Have Said” excuse me, correction! “Things Not Worth Saying At All” clickbait max Best for: Jamie Lynn Spears, you wrote this book for yourself Best to: child tv star, teenage pregnancy, high school sweetheart break-up, new husband, young motherhood, daughter drowning accident, sister rivalry, back to work; fi

BATB score: 7/10 🥹 Best as: a forensic psychiatrist sharing her notes from speaking to 11 inmates: serial killers, pedophiles, murderer, stalker, abuser; pleading for a chance to hold our judgement and hear them out; this book could have been a 10/10 if it was written by a writer VS a doctor (select only 5/11 stories, thriller narration, highlight the who-what) Best for: for aspirational forensic psychiatrists > 11 case studies Best to: “society needs to condemn a little les

BATB score: 10/10 💯👏 *have I been living under a rock to not have come across this 1997 masterpiece? OMG* Jean-Dominique Bauby life was soaring as Editor-in-Chief of French magazine Elle. In 1995, Bauby, 43, had a stroke that resulted with locked-in syndrome where his whole body is paralyzed and he could only blink his left eyelid. His mind was 100% fully functioning but everything else is frozen. A speech therapist reads out the alphabet where Bauby would blink at the lett

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 Best as: proof that every well-known-enough person should write an autobiography as one’s passive income and legacy Best for: when who you marry out-shadowed you Best to: “separated but not divorced; we ride together, we die together, bad marriage for life” so what’s an entanglement? Best quotes: “Fame might get you company, but it ain’t always good company. And it’s certainly not real love or real respect.” “If you have a blowup with someone you really ch

BATB score: 4/10 🙄 it seems like celebrities are writing their memoirs to tell their story, remain relevant, self-reflect, publicly confess, and make some passive income; quick wins 💯 Best to: you need an intermediate level knowledge on who Demi Moore is to be able to enjoy and relate to her memoirs Best for: did you know that Demi Moore dated Ashton Kusher? if you don’t know nor don’t really care, then skip this book Best as: broken family, rape, sex scenes, divorce, movie

BATB score: 9/10 🥹👏 *reader discretion advised* not for the gentle souls but hear me out, “The only way to stop it, is to find a way to tell, and that the very best revenge, is to survive and survive well.” Best as: telling her own story; since 4-years-old, Shy Keenan was physically and sexually abused and prostituted to paedophiles by her stepdad, for 10+ years Social Services didn’t save her, and finally at 40-years-old she put her stepdad in jail; today, she runs Phoenix

BATB score: 5/10 🤷‍♀️ Best for: you have to be in the start-up venture capitalist business to appreciate the tissue-paper billion dollar deal, the all-or-nothing gamble based on gut feelings,and the crazy mad man founders and even crazier investors Best to: too detailed for the average joe on a don’t really need to know basis Best as: so this is what it takes; missing your own wedding twice, a narcissistic belief in yourself as ultra indestructible, never wanting to step dow

BATB score: 5/10 💋 written by Jessica Simpsons for Jessica Simpsons Best as: a nostalgic ride back to the good years - 2000s; MTV billboard, skinny low waisted jeans, paparazzi, reality TV, unrelated music videos, lip sync but touching lyrics,success measured based on how many CDs you’ve sold Best to: Mickey Mouse Club The Disney Channel Season 6-7 1993-1995 has made big name celebrities: Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling; and no, Jessica Si

BATB score: 6/10 Best as: a complete memoir on how a drug addict is born, how it starts, escalates, cold turkey withdrawals, relapses; and how it effects everyone in your life 💯 BATB lingering thought: how pleasurably addictive is it that you don’t think about dying but merely to get high 🤔 Best to: he wrote this memoir in a psych ward upon his third suicide attempt Best for: aren’t we all addicts of some sort? - everything escalated from there Best quotes: “Drugs are my on

BATB score: 9/10 🥺 a memoir of a sexually abused survivor sharing it all especially about how social services failed to save child victims aka completely missing their core job Best as: bold, bold to write and claim your own story of child abuse, bold to put your own brother, mother, and step-father in prison, bold to be able to restart and finally enjoy life as a single mom of five children and one angel child 😇 Best to: she wrote the book in 2021 and then changed her name

BATB score: 7/10 🤓 Best as: a memoir to Bill Gate’s adolescence years from age 7 with a lot a lot of details that wasn’t necessary BATB lingering thought: talking about a head start; when you start being curious about the world since 7 and start programming at age 13, by the time you are 19, you already made Microsoft Best to: when the library is your comfort zone, reading books is your favorite pastime activity, and programming is your prodigy; you get a Bill Gates ie. “The

BATB score: 7/10 🥺 Best as: Sweden’s dark side of teen guns and gangs, poverty for young immigrants, racism and homicides 🇸🇪 Best to: a memoir of a Swedish social worker who crossed the line and took one home BATB lingering thought: the ending got me chills Best for: something different to read, did you know about Sweden’s teen gun violence? I didn’t either. Best quote: “Will you care if I die?”

BATB score: 7/10 💙 Best to: ex-facebooker director of public policy, minus-one to Mark Z and Sheryl S tells ALL; careless people on external global issues and internal company culture Best for: ex-facebookers, current meta-mates, anyone in public policy; we’ve witnessed all of this BATB lingering thought: one for the road, one in a books; closure to once-a-facebooker - how you think about quitting everyday but takes years to finally quit (or in this case… *otherwise) - and s