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

BATB score: 5/10 🤨 reader discretion advised: a 21st century memoir to family YouTube channel sensation, influencer monetization, zero children’s privacy, staged content, and cancel culture Best to: a perfect family life on-camera exposed by your eldest daughter; kudos to sissy for writing this memoir to save-ish her younger siblings BATB lingering thought: written by a 21-year-old, a memoir that’s quite eloquent, great chapter structure, good use of advanced English vocabul

BATB score: 7/10 😱 reader discretion advised: not for the faint-hearted; painful tales of children born in North Korea concentration camps Best as: from reading so many North Korea escapee stories, this one stands out as he had to escape from the concentration camps first and only then escaped from North Korea like the other escapee stories Best for: North Korea stories enthusiast Best to: scarier than North Korea is today’s genocide in Gaza; scarier because this is globally