BATB score: 8.8/10 🤍 *Reader Discretion Advised* not for the faint heart 💔 - the description of child trauma cases were explicit, heart-breaking, depressing, and unfortunately true stories. Best to: this is not a leisure read but an exploratory, educational, specialised read; as a matter of fact, this is a required textbook for undergraduate and graduate classes in sociology, neuroscience, psychology, criminology, and many other disciplines #respect Best for: keen academic

BATB score: 8/10 🌺 Best to: it's about the horrendous atrocities of the holocaust from a young prisoner of war's point of view; how this young lady had hope through the death marches and how once liberated now grandma continues to be her jailor and haven't truly been free from what happened #PTSD Best for: memoirs of the holocaust survivors; consider this book only if you have read "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl and/or "The Diary of Anne Frank" Best as: "Only I

BATB score: 8/10 🏆 Dear Stephen A. Schwarzman, you are such an interesting and an incredible self-made human being. I feel so humble to have read through your journey to one of the richest man on earth. 🖤 Best to: definitely an uphill battle from being Lehman Brothers' low-life form employee, starting Blackstone with your mentor at Lehman, diversifying the business wherever the opportunities are, taking it global, and becoming an advisor to the US Presidents. #dayum All tha

BATB score: 8/10 🤎 Best to: true living definition of having a growth mindset, intellectual curiosity, trial and error approach, societal behavioural economics at work, define and re-define life, and laughing at oneself - Mr. Feynman! you are one hell of a character! Best for: if you like The Big Bang Theory series, Mr. Feynman is pretty much half-Sheldon, half-Leonard, and a little bit of Penny Best as: how could one person be a technician, a safecracker, a nuclear bomb sci

BATB score: 8.8/10 💜 BATB Fact: Mitch Albom's non-fiction biographies 👏 are way better than his overrated and redundant fictional tales Best to: Mitch Albom ⭐ Top 5 ⭐ definitely but do check out "Finding Chika" first and foremost Best for: all of us; who hates our mom at one point in our teenage and midlife years; okay 'hate' is a strong word, allow me to rephrase, annoyed of, dislike, conflicted with, offensive of, angered about mom, mommy, mother. Best as: a memoir to all

BATB score: 8.5/10 💙 a brilliant biography about the making of someone and the meaning of life Best to: the fact that James R. Doty, MD is a bad academic student with an unaccommodating family upbringing, an exceptionally neurosurgeon, a 75M USD business investor, a CCARE philanthropist, and an author of his own enlightenment makes him relatable 360 Best for: anyone who is asking 'what's the meaning of life'? 🙋‍♀️🙋 Best as: this book is "The Secret" Rhonda Byrne mixed with

BATB score: 8/10 🕵️ easiest read in mankind. thank you Ray Dalio for dumbing the principles down for us to understand what you are trying to say 🙏 Best to: I feel like Ray Dalio is trying to squeeze out every money making opportunity while disgusting the attempt as 'the building of one's legacy' and 'sharing of one's learnings' #inspirational; this book is freaking expensive while the content is like itsy bitsy Best for: raise your hand if you believed "Principles" by Ray D

BATB score: 8/10 👩‍🦰 well-written 👏 legit / strong analysis of sexism from child's play to C-level dynamics to everyday balancing career vs family; the numerous women-centric expectations, burden, and challenges just to be considered as equal to men Best to: women leadership, breaking the glass ceiling via leading by example; Sheryl Sandberg's legacy aka linkedin profile in a format of a book Best for: mothers juggling a successful career and quality time with family; I co

BATB score: 8/10 🔥 The Kim's regime in North Korea is a perfectly executed marketing propaganda yet one that is difficult to keep when the new generations start seeing otherwise; likeas any monarchy's blinded loyalty and religious miracle tell-tales, nothing can withstand time. Best to: North Korea's anecdotes and defector's escape stories continues to amaze me; it has been 30+ years of starvation, I really want to know how this would end. The answer can only be an internal-

BATB score: 8/10 💛 some chapters were exceptionally awesome while other chapter were just like okay okay la - I personally love love chapter 7 "Give Face" and chapter 8 "Check Your Weirdness" #veryimportantindeed Best to: the book is about how to be the bigger person in dealing with everyday conflicts from listening more, to the right way to say sorry, to how to save their face as well as your face #legit Best for: if your role and responsibility includes stakeholders manage

BATB score: 8/10 💎 BATB Reading Level: easy peesy - 1 day read Best to: clear, actionable, conclusive, and simple self-help literally on "How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job" a tad bit better Best for: if you have not read any of Dale Carnegie's book, firstly - what a disappointment; secondly - okay just read this one collated book Best as: a refresher read to Dale Carnegie's first two original all-stars books "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and "How to Stop Worryi

BATB score: 8/10 🐾 Dave Trott's way of writing is very predictable; numerous short crisis stories where creativity saved the day Best to: key to creative advertising is to stand out whether that's seeing cool things that others see as dull or twisting things to some crazy surprise Best for: you should just read 1 Dave Trott's book and you are pretty much good to go; this book works! Best as: I guess that's why creative agencies tend to overthink (for an award blah blah) Best

BATB score: 8/10 🥹 a novel on 10 characters on 10 different types of everyday anxiety - relatable and lovable in every way Best to: scarier than being diagnosed with a mental illness is suffering and surviving everyday's immense anxiety while smiling and acting cool like you have it all in control as you are and do have the textbook definition of success and happiness #itsharderthanitlooks Best for: we all need therapy 💔 Best as: "Anxious People" Netflix TV Mini Series 6.8/

BATB score: 8/10 🍋🍋🍋 Literary art at its best. Touching on the arrays of grief. Yet, the ending was extremely cliffhanger. Best to: read this in one sitting - each chapter is written through different literary styles from different POVs; narration, presentation, characters, dialogues, and plot at its best at the highest suspense (so much details like peeling an onion 🧅) Best for: Netflix would need to make a movie adaption of this urgently Best as: engaging crime suspense

BATB score: 8/10 🩺 I’ve learnt a shit ton about the flaws in the healthcare sector! But this book is not a kind read for everyone. Best as: a doctor’s data driven analysis regarding how messed up the medical industry really is - from doctors not washing their hands, pregnancy labor with the old-school forceps is better than a c-section, keeping the soldiers alive within the first hour of attack, doctors’ self-defined salary - so how much do you want to get paid, to making du

BATB score: 8/10 🧢 Modern day ‘Catcher in the Rye’ 🌟 Best as: literature art appreciation class required reading; it sure does sucks to always be compared to other people’s honorary literature Best for: literature enthusiast - an epistolary novel about the coming of age of a teen, great character build, touching the topics of friends, family, gender, intercourse, love, PTSD, and suicide in the most eloquent and serene manner Best to: watch the movie adaptation of “The Perks

BATB score: 8/10 ☠️ Best for: loyal fan clubs of Atul Gawande who would like to complete all of Atul Gawande’s 4 written masterpieces 📚 Best as: did you know that sometimes doctors forget to wash their hands before conducting invasive surgery on you? Yep, that’s why the medical system and safety check and balance is loose as hell. Best to: how the solution is simply and literally a checklist to go through before every surgery, flight, investment, etc.; just a mere checklist

BATB score: 8/10 🧡 Best to: at the very least know Viola Davis as Annalise Keating aka her award-winning performances in 'How to Get Away With Murder’ OR as Aibileen Clark aka her award-winning performance in ‘The Help’ - you gotta know her to read this book Best as: reality check for aspiring actors/actresses that beyond talent, it takes good old luck to be the lucky few who made it - a lot about the works of show biz Best for: “show me a hero and I’ll show you a tragedy” B

BATB score: 8/10 👨‍⚕️🩺🩻 *Disclaimer* I love Adam Kay and I love reading Adam Kay’s books! I believe it’s comedically therapeutic. Best to: you have to read “This is Going to Hurt” BATB 10/10 first and foremost to understand the back story of H and J, his old medical adventures as a doctor, why he gave up, and why and where he is now Best as: you know how becoming a doctor is the only occupation that our parents would acknowledge as ‘attaining success’? and how your true ha

BATB score: 8/10 👩‍❤️‍👨 likeas 9 mini-episodes of Love, Sex, and Robots on Netflix but more like 9 short novels of Love, Marriage, and Life Best to: know that the book title is an extremely poor indicator of what the book is really about; the book encompass 9 types of mature marriages and ties each of the 9 stories to Calcutta India 🇮🇳 Best as: a nice literary take on arranged marriage, affairs, divorces, lust, and falling out of love; and ending every piece on a cliffhan