BATB score: 8.8/10 A story about two talking mice on a challenge to find cheese; yet, extremely relatable to humans and our everyday quests. A simple short read with readers incurring different lessons / highlights from the book. Original for the famous quote: What would you do if you weren't afraid? Best for: everyone should read this book then over-analyze it over dinner with your smart friends. FYI 28 million copies sold worldwide!

BATB score: 8.8/10 From: What would you do if you weren't afraid? for the brave Haws To: What would you do if you believed it was possible? for the average Hems This book is 100% relatable. Just change 'cheese' to your life goals, love relationship, career, dreams; and 'maze' to whatever challenges, monster, or negative thoughts you are surrounded with. 10/10 hopes in sequel recovered. #legitEp2 Best for: completed readers of Who Move My Cheese Ep1, the rest of the world popu

BATB score: 5/10 This book takes you back to high school literature class. A very abstract self-improvement parable - where you then write a 500-words assignment on the symbolism and psychoanalysis of what Paulo Coelho must have meant. p.s. your ambiguity is frustrating. The no-climax fable with out-of-this-world characters, where the wind talks and a scarab beetle is an omen, cross paths in the oddest plot lines Spain-Africa-Egypt. Best to: read when quarantined #covid19 or

BATB Score: 4.321/10 #TheRosieProject #GraemeSimsion The only fiction book that Bill Gates recommended (out of this solid recommendations of nonfiction research papers) #GateNotes It's basically Sheldon Cooper's love life; not be Amy but with Rosie. #TheBigBangTheory Best for: the overlap between nonfiction bookworms and Sheldon Cooper fanclubs Best to: just read for fun and expect nothing; or maybe leave the fiction to the cinemas. Best as: BATB's one and only fiction book r

BATB score: 2+2=5/10 The extremes of a totalitarian regime: watched 24/7 by Big Brother tele-screens, people 'vaporized' gone bye-bye, Room 101 tortures chambers, one sole ideology to believe/love/worship. All of which is relatable today. Best as: it's a masterpiece classics. literature class 101 pre-reading book. bookclub post-read brainstorm worthy Best to: damn George Orwell! - how did you compose this twisted well-narrated triumphant of a legendary book?! Best for: all of

BATB score: 10/10 ❣️ BEAUTIFUL HEARTBREAKING NOVEL Gracefully written, artistic novel narrative flow, holistic character build up, and suspenseful story twists and turns: bravo, hands down! #isaluteyou #KhaledHosseini Best as: Emma Watson (Hermione) and Malala Yousafzai (youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner) recommends this book as "the best book - read it" Best to: "Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always" Best for: so where

BATB score: 10/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Extremely painful and heartbreaking yet beautifully written and a pure masterpiece. Malala Yousafzai recommends this book - "I think it’s important for girls everywhere to learn how women are treated in some societies. The book reminds us how courageous and strong women are around the world.” Best for: all of us elites who are too privileged to acknowledge how privilege we are Best as: a good heart cry and/or a cleansing of our capitalistic greed. Yet

BATB score: 10/10 🕊 emotionally moving masterpiece 🤍 Khaled Hosseini writes novels so painful that your heart bleeds 💔 Best for: everyone to give Khaled Hosseini a chance; his characters build up, his story twisted journey, and his closure that gives you a chance to breathe again but a part of you will never be the same Best to: know that all these fictional twists and turns is probably someone’s ‘based on a true story’ #TalibanTodayStill #KabulAfghanistan Best as: a remin

BATB score: 6/10 🧕 recommended by Emma Watson aka Hermione Granger - an illustrated comic on an upbringing of Iranian women being 'worth half of men'. Best as: leisure yet knowledgeable read on Iran 1970s through war, martyrs, and head scarves via an autobiography of a curious and rebellious girl 🙎‍♀️ Best to: know that there's no climax nor key plot twist in this comic - just a series of chronological events Best for: admiration of the comic illustrations that told a story

BATB score: 9/10 🥺 Beautifully written; bites your core with only 48 pages. Best as: this short masterpiece was in remembrance of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach safety in Europe in September 2015; come on, you remember that image with the tiny baby boy face down washed ashore? that's him. All proceeds of this book goes to UNHCR. Best for: Khaled Hosseini's diehard fans. Hosseini is definitely something - how

BATB score: 8.5/10 Best to: know that a child living in UNHCR refugee camp does not necessarily mean 'rescued' Best for: Deborah Ellis' fans - or collectors of Deborah Ellis books; best to have read "The Breadwinner" and "Parvana's Journey" prior to considering this book Best as: I wish that elementary school kids have Deborah Ellis books as required reading; 'Of Mice and Men' or 'To Kill a MockingBird' or 'Anne Frank' are great books. However, these are unrelatable today. I

BATB score 10/10 🙋‍♀️🤱👭 Embracing women sacrifices in the most engaging and relatable way 💯 Best to: a very easy and enjoyable read about the life of Mrs. Kim Jiyoung in different life roles amidst a patriarchal society: a daughter vs a son, a school girl vs a school boy, a woman vs a man in the workforce, a mother vs a father expectations 💢 Best for: every Asian person can relate to this book, brings back childhood memories of favouritism to the sons, the hired/promoted

BATB score: 9.5/10 🌑 *Disclaimer* this book is not for everyone. this book reads you and of what your mind is capable of - unlike other books that you read. #excruciating Best to: this book is dark and sick yet a well-narrated novel; eloquent and efficient in moving feelings - trauma sincerely heartfelt; covering incidents that are vividly scary and painful #agonizing Not an easy book to read. 700+ pages of an incredibly detailed life journey with underlying mental issues. Y

BATB score: 6.6/10 🇰🇷🇯🇵 Best to: know that it's a journey through five generations of a Korean family seeking refuge and making a life in Japan (that was never truly home). A novel of a wife's role for her husband, dignity in the eyes of thy neighbours, poverty, suicide, yakuza and pachiko parlors. Best for: novel loyalist - it's a really long book that doesn't end; five generations, i tell you. The book gives you random shocking one-sentence plot twist - oddball surprise

BATB score: 4/10 🤎 OMG. 12 main characters connected through societal roles as daughter, mother, grandmother, teacher, teacher's mother, student, girl-friend, girlfriend, gay transgender sister - throughout 12 chapters with 20+ other minor characters 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧👩‍👧👩‍👧‍👦 to complicate the stories even more #OMG Best to: extremely difficult to follow through the stories, too many things happening at the same time, minimal build up of character, impossible to bond

BATB score: 7.5/10 😨 for the 75% that I understood what Murakami was trying to say... so many uncanny characters and bewildered incidents leaving readers in an influx of ambiguous feelings; this Murakami is definitely a unique soul! Best to: Murakami's way of writing is "Murakami-ly" one of a kind; he writes in an odd flow of episodes where you restlessly continue to read hoping for some closure when there is none - and now you are left with a huge Murakami gap in your heart

BATB score: 6.5/10 🌪 What an exotic brilliant mind - Aldous Huxley 1931. Everything in this dystopian social science fiction novel is still legitimate - make us question about the society we live in Best to: understandably why this is one of the required literature class readings; out of this world novel exploring a flip side of the world we live in with its numerous concepts of social conditioning, caste systems, sexual liberation, FORD-dictatorship, civilisation, and order

BATB score: 10/10 ⌚️⏰⏳ Beautiful, touching, and inspirational classic from Mitch Albom 💕 easily read and teary in one sitting 😭 Best to: finish the book - at the end, it's worth it; also, ask oneself, with all the minutes passing are we really living? Best for: all of us - to give Mitch Albom a chance; all of us who are pressed with time but yet wondered where all the time has passed Best as: why are we so obsessed with time? the counting of, the lacking of, the speed/quali

BATB score: 7/10 🔥 *Reader Discretion Advised* this book is rated R; 18+ content - please be wary Best to: a very interesting and thought-provoking novel from the sexual imaginations of Murakami; very descriptive of sexual desires and actual coitus Best for: Murakami fans - I understood like 65% of what Murakami is trying to relay; I do comprehend the face value of all the narrated components and series of events, yet I am positive that Murakami intended more symbolism and a

BATB score: 6.3/10 🕶🍻💢 Entertaining historical fiction regarding spies, escapes, murder, and politics during Hitler's regime Best to: great plot, suspenseful flow, and a good number of characters to love and to fear; yet, Rory Clements is your slightly above average authors - not wow. Best for: readers of fiction, he said, she said, gasps, pants, strikes Best as: a substitute leisure activity for screen time coach potatoes 🥔