BATB score: 7/10 Best for: you must have prior knowledge or have binged watched The Duggar’s “19 Kids and Counting” and/or “Jill and Jessa: Counting On” Reality Show; I kid you not this was as big as “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” back in 2008-2015 Best to: a memoir from Duggar’s child number 4 out of 19 children about how Daddy Duggar took all the payouts and how fame and money breaks family BATB lingering thought: apparently, the family made 8 million USD for 7 seasons b

BATB score: 7/10 🌟 Random Fact: Thailand's ex-prime minister Yingluck S. recommended this book on her personal FB; I believe once you were ousted out you do have a lot of time to catch up on reading la la la. Best to: started poorly basic but ended quite conclusive - everything you need to know about the fifth paradigm marketing; book content structured like a typical university course book - defining terms and briefly explaining the gist of such subject term before moving o

BATB score: 7/10 ⚡️ Did I do my best to be happy? Did I do my best to find meaning? A book about owning your life as a protagonist for being a better version of yourself everyday. Best to: read Marshall Goldsmith's "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" 🌟 first and foremost; then if you are still keen, have a take on this book Best for: guilt-ridden victim of "satisficing" - our tendency to commodify everyday choices because chasing that last bit of improvement is not worth

BATB score: 7/10 💋💔💃 A heartfelt memoir from the perspective of an American-Korean daughter through her Korean mother's battle with cancer, reconciliation attempts with her father, and the post-mortem dreams and memories of her mother's Asian influences. Best to: mothers are always right - "Mommy is the only one who will tell you the truth, because Mommy is the only one who ever truly love you." Best for: daughters of all ages and all walks of life - one day your tough lov

BATB score: 7.7/10 💛 Jeffrey Pfeffer is a one of a kind author who writes about unpopular truths of office politics and leadership blah blah. Best to: you know how other leadership books discuss about godlike outlier kings and queens of perfect leadership? well, that feels good, uplifting narrative is depressing; this book is taking on a stance on the distrustful, disengaged, dissatisfied, despairing flip side Best for: actors in leadership positions as acting is essential t

BATB score: 7.8/10 🧠 *Reader discretion advised* this a theoretical, thoroughly-researched, serious academic book. This book is smarter than all of us combined. I feel the blood, sweat, and tears; the discipline, determination, and passion of Jonathan Haidt in writing this comprehensive piece. #bravo Best to: 90% chimp 10% bee; fundamentally, we are competitive selfish hypocrites 🙈; yet, we morally can collate for the good of the group 🐝 Best for: debaters, political leade

BATB score: 7.8/10 ⚓️ and that concludes all of Mitch Albom's books in BATB collection! *disclaimer* okay fair enough, BATB has missed out one book "For One More Day" but BATB can not Mitch Albom any more even if for One More Book. Let BATB be free! Best to: okay, listen carefully, the best Mitch Albom book is "Finding Chika"; contrary to his acquired fame with his easy-going fiction storytelling, his non-fiction breaks more hearts. 1st runner up is "Tuesday with Morrie" Best

BATB score: 7.2/10 ⭐️ a French blind girl trying to survive the Reich WWII and a German boy detecting her prohibited radio broadcast and (less important) a magical valuable blue gem 💎 called the Sea of Flames Best to: 500+ pages extremely verbose, detailed, and descriptive about numerous events in non-chronological order; readers are dumped with 100+ pieces of the story puzzle, you have to figure which pieces were important and which were just extras (like made in china dupl

BATB score: 7/10 💃 a journey of a whore from nobody, to mistress, to a rich ass Mademoiselle; navigating life's gems through husbands #idol #inspiration Best to: a difficult to read novel due to the many husbands/partners/lords/prince and the numerous details of her love life instances; I believe over 100+ plot twists happened in this one novel; +add-on to the novel difficulty with old style writings of oh lord, de, thy, nay. Best for: a very good plan B to wealth; in case o

BATB score: 7.7/10 🇺🇸 this book makes you proud to be Asian #asianpride Best to: a book that more than half of the world's population can relate 🌏 61% of the world to be exact - I am just that kind of Asian 🤓; our tough love upbringings, the American culture shock, our parents' expectations of a thousand successes, the "Pursuing your dreams is for losers. Doing what you love is how you become homeless." Best for: 'have yet to make your parents proud' Asians, Asian immigra

BATB score: 7.6/10 🧐 well-researched, well-written, thoroughly analysed groundwork on how being a generalist makes you see the bigger picture and allows you to creatively strategise more than specialists; a very nerdy book #nerdalert Best to: serious documentation and experiments on how generalist rules, scrutinising the common belief that favors specialisation; yet redundant with the last few chapters quite wishy washy 💦 Best for: a lot of tech / business key opinion leade

BATB score: 7/10 👹🖤 recommended by the ousted ex-prime minister of Thailand - Thaksin Shinawatra - the detailed fundamentals to his current philosophy of governing and living 👏 Best to: a critical book to read if you want to become a politician - to kill or to be killed, how the fox befriended the tiger, believing in dharma, meditate, pick your battles, money is just a means to an end, and be extremely greedy for success 💯 Best for: if you believe in "winners take all", h

BATB score: 7/10 🏙 Adam Neumann, WeWork co-founder, though a billion dollar loser is still a billionaire 💸 - yes, fortune favours the bold Best to: sales skills, extruding confidence, charismatic persona and interpersonal skills trump actual business numbers in gaining trust from co-founders and billion dollar investors Best for: a critical book for aspiring entrepreneurs, start-ups innovators, and IPO dreamers to learn about the hustles and pitfalls of a one-person leaders

BATB score: 7/10 🌺 “There I was, a spy of sorts, hoping not to plant bombs but to plant ideas.” Best to: Suki Kim in an ultimate mid-life crisis (a broken heart obviously) and meaning-of-life quest by disguising as a missionary English teacher for the sole elite male school in Pyongyang Best for: anyone with an obsession and fascination for North Korea who has read >3 fight or flight flee stories; this book is another POV of a volunteered teacher BATB tips: the best North Ko

BATB score: 7/10 🆕 Greg McKeown's 3rd book (2021) after his huge global success with BATB's fav "Essentialism" (2014) and, though less famous, yet another one of BATB's fav "Multipliers" (2010); a true example of less (with the right few) is more 👏 Best to: read Greg McKeown's "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less" (2014) first and foremost; no questions ask Best for: anyone who can relate to this statement, “we are conditioned over the course of our lifetimes to b

BATB score: 7/10 👜 I don't want to spoil anything.. but make sure you marry well 💍 (and avoid working with family if you don't have to) Best to: "The first generation is the one that creates the idea, the second develops it, the third must face the big growth questions." a good juicy story from 1921 to date on the story of Gucci but... it's just 500 pages too long 🤯 Best for: a 3rd generation stuck in a family business that grandpa made or a fan of Gucci brand narrative -

BATB score: 7.7/10 💸 Is the 'price' for career success (for exceptional levels of income and responsibilities) extreme work stress? Are you literally dying for a paycheck? ☠️ Best to: it's a dissertation thesis paper on the economic cost of work stress, the behavioural economic at play from the employer in creating and the employees at consenting and enduring work stress, the socio-economic impact of work stress, and the recommendations to try to make things better Best for:

BATB score: 7.3/10 🏝 BATB level: extreme advance 🔥 art appreciation in novel literature > an enjoyable read Best to: I truly appreciate Hanya, especially the thought-process behind writing the 3-novel combo; let's talk about the time structure of writing (chronological, nostalgia thinking back, parallel universe), the using of the same names for different characters across the 3 novels (though it did confuse me a hell lot), the same place different centuries of events, the

BATB score: 7/10 🍷 Amy Schumer is an introvert. Best to: casual, entertaining, relatable read about life - broken parents, siblings, drinking, boyfriends, and blackouts; likeas how we all are trying to understand what happened to us, who are we really, and where are we going exactly? Best for: you have to know who Amy Schumer is, have watched her stand-up on Netflix, or have watched her movie “Trainwreck” to be able to find this autobiography of hers interesting Best as: lig

BATB score: 7.5/10 ⚜️ a very interesting and yet an extremely complicated mission impossible (but was possible). plan - okay so, I'm going in as a prisoner, I'm going to survive, I'm going to collect as much intel as possible, I'll constantly try to relay / seek out info, I'm going to raise a secret army at the camp, then we're going to escape, and we're going to tell world, then we're going to attack from the outside and the inside of concentration camp, and save everybody e