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: 6/10 🫥 Best as: 65% Sam Carr’s memoir on loneliness; 35% other people’s telltale on loneliness Best to: in need of roughly 15% more scientific data, experimental reference, tangible substance or else it’s just storytelling Best for: this book is not worth your PhD 😬 Best quotes: “We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?” “There is cruel irony in the fact that the relationships that play such a critical role in def

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

BATB score: 6/10 🍜 *reader discretion advised* you must get past the first part, first 100 pages, and then you’re good; it only gets more tolerable, interesting, and relatable from there Best as: this is not a book, this is a white paper research thesis circling around this one premise “ultra-processed food (UPF) is the cause of our over-eating, obesity, and other health problems” and thus why current FDA is inadequate, why blaming lack of exercise, a low-nutrients, high-car

BATB score: 6/10 💃🏻 🕺 *great book title 👏 metaphorically descriptive and conclusive: men and women are polar opposites 🪐☄️ Best as: written by a relationship counselor back in 1992; 33 years later, a lot of the premises are still true Best to: however, gender-role association may not be that straightforward; there’s more than two genders now and gender-role characteristics are more fluid BATB lingering thought: and that’s why we need marriage counseling (and maybe that’s

BATB score: 2/10 😡 you’ve wasted my time *said with an intimidating resting bitch face* please go zen away from me Best as: this is not how you introduce Buddhism to busy people; this is how you pissed off busy people with your repetitive writing style, softie storytelling, and weakest Buddhism pitch Best to: hire a very good ghost writer, re-write this book to a third of the size, get to the point don’t waste time, raise only your killer best stories, gain better street cre

BATB score: 6/10 🤖 meh. introduction to Microsoft company culture and 2030s vision under Satya Nadella’s ruling; fun fact, AI investment was already in the works since 2017 👏 Microsoft and OpenAI 🚀 Best for: if you are applying for a director role at Microsoft Best to: mister growth mindset, c in ceo stands for culture, one team one dream, learning from on-ground consumers, partners, and competitors, serving a sole north star “to empower every person and organization on th

BATB score: 3/10 ⌛️ Best to: this book on “time” is a waste of time Best as: Chris Guillebeau is a weakling Best for: too basic for valedictorians, IVY league graduates, wartime leaders, all-star employees, and asians BATB lingering thought: your best excuse to say no to anything is “No, thank you. I’m going to die one day.” Best quotes: “You feel regretful about the past, uncertain or hesitant about the present, and apprehensive of the future.” “If everything’s important, no

BATB score: 10/10 👏 *Daniel H Pink is my favorite non-fiction author* Best as: nerdy, scientific, experimental, behavioral economics, entertaining, fun read Best for: you need to digest and think of further optimizing implementation from these insights or else it’s just useless fun read Best to: knowing that it is the last piece of chocolate, that last piece is the most yummy nom nom Best quotes: “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your st

BATB score: 7/10 🤔 Best for: first jobbers / young rat racers or a reminder for senior leaders; how to be beloved by your manager, how to navigate office gossip and benefit from corridor talk, how to ask for a raise, and when and how to quit tactfully Best as: once you are more senior, you either figure out how to navigate manager politics with your own playbook or you don’t give a fuck any more 😂 BATB lingering thought: at 35 years old, after sprinting in this corporate ra

BATB score: 9/10 🐟 *book elevator pitch* how did Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle (mandate roles, smelly fish, early hours, low wages) be a fun, happy, great place to work? Best as: simple easy good read, here’s a conclusive book summary 1. PLAY - Work made fun gets done. 2. MAKE THEIR DAY - turn routine encounters into special memories 3. BE THERE - be present wholeheartedly 4. CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE - optimism and gratefulness attracts positivity Best for: a reminder for al

BATB score: 9/10 👏 Best as: Bill Gates’ 2025 recommended read is 700 pages long; took BATB a distracted 1 month to complete - enjoyed most of the chapters tho Best to: a memoir of a New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner sharing the behind the scenes of Tiananmen Square, the Yemeni civil war, the Darfur genocide in Sudan, sex slave in Southeast Asia, Cuba warlords and so much more reportings BATB lingering thought: now where’s the line between passive reporting a

BATB score: 7/10 🤯 BATB loves victim’s memoir - own your story 💪 yeah! from the front page news, the unbelievable tragic story, the imprisonment, the documentary, “The Act” movie spin off; yes girl, you tell your story! Best for: you need prior knowledge on Dee Dee and Gypsy case, extreme Munchausen by Proxy, actually very famous case you should know BATB TL;DR: “When Dee Dee Blanchard was twenty-four years old, she gave life to me. When I was nearly twenty-four years old,

BATB score: 6/10 😂 *reader discretion advised* BATB just wanted to know how did this comedian, Matt Rife, ended up on BATB’s For You feed?!? Best as: ahh okay, Matt Rife has always wanted to be a comedian and so he did! by self-sponsoring his first stand up show, posting clips on all social media, hit the jackpot with Tiktok For You algorithm, and boom ta da! 🎉 world tour sold out 👏 Netflix Christmas special and wrote a memoir 🤯 took 12 years Best for: you must have seen

BATB score: 6/10 😑 Best as: this book could have been an email - Morgan Housel were you in a rush to publish? Best to: wealth is “the family you’ve built, the friends you’ve found, the memories you have, and the wisdom you’ve accumulated” Best for: anyone who has yet figured out how much is enough Best quotes: “the goal was not to make a living; it was to make a life, and only a fool would sacrifice his actual life for the endless pursuit of an imaginarily better one.” “One

BATB score: 8/10 🥹 Best as: wow what a memoir on eating to suppress feelings, eating as a defense mechanism, eating to hide to the point of morbid obesity BATB TL;DR: sexually abused at 12, turned to eating to numb feels to the point of obesity Best to: redundant with each chapter but forgivable Best for: any women out there who agrees that fat shaming and fat dysmorphia is real; even if you are not (that) fat you wish to be less fat Best quotes: “I reserve my most elaborate