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 💋💔💃 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: 5/10 🏄‍♀️🌏 too detailed and written in textbook style an autobiography on who is Yvon Chouinard, the origins of Patagonia Inc, and the philosophy behind the business environmental morales and day-to-day enjoyable and sustainable operations Best to: true passion driven business 💯 started with the love for the outdoors; translates into business values 'let my people go surfing' flextime policy, donating 10% of profit to non-profit environmental groups, and creati

BATB score: 10/10 🤍 relatable in every way; thank you #MattHaig for writing this book to shed light on depression as an illness and as common brain mishap Best to: beautifully personal and eloquently elaborative of someone going through depression, comprising of inner demons and anxiety that makes living difficult Best for: everyone should read this regardless of whether you are a sufferer, a survivor of, or merely a fellow friend of anyone going through depression #BeAnAlly

BATB score: 10/10 💯🥺👏 my heart hurts. a sad, emotional, and heartfelt memoir for Chika - a bubbly 7-year-old battling brain tumour DIPG, the hopeful journeys of legal guardians, and the feelings left behind. Best to: Mitch Albom is an amazing author in conveying emotions and affections in very simple writing; easily digestible by readers and, for sure, strike a chord in readers' hearts 💯💞 Best for: if you are going to read only one book this year, read this book. If you

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: 5/10 not all of Mitch Albom's book is a 10/10 Best to: so jelly to have Mitch Albom write one's eulogy in the form of a globally sold book; Rev Henry, your life story from a rough start to jail to redemption to singing in the hospital is truthful to one's complicated life Best for: you don't have to be religious to relate to this book Best as: if you are going to read Mitch Albom's books, you might as well read all of Mitch Albom's books

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: 10/10 📕‼🔺 well-written 👏 the different lives of North Koreans: the selected Pyongyang elite, the starving Chongjin shameful caste, the defectors, the loyalist, the real tears and the saliva ones Best to: the best introduction to North Korea's communism rule, dictatorship regime, 360 propaganda, blinded loyalty, flawed management, starvation, hopeless deaths, and survival act of defectors Best for: politics and human rights aside; North Korea's Kim-family dictat

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 👩‍🦰 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: 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: 10/10 💕 the best autobiography written in mankind, the making, the struggles, the crack, the enlightenment of Will Smith 😎 very clever that Will Smith wrote this book, I respect his legacy even more 💪 Best to: it's about not wanting to be second in anything, about being a dreamer with wings that outshines your family/marriage, and about 'enough' happiness after tremendous success Best for: if you think Will Smith was a great actor in the movie 'The Pursuit of H

BATB score: 9.2/10 👩‍🎓👏💯 Bill Gates' and Barack Obama's 2018 recommended read 💯 spot on - I am so sorry that I took so long to get to it (4 years to be exact) #betterlatethannever This book is almost a 10/10. Just a very very small point. At times, the narration was a bit slow and the ending chapters were less strong compared to the other chapters. Best to: a brilliant heartfelt memoir - it's about family values and ties, mormonism, beliefs, faith, education, self-discov

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: 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: 6/10 💛 "Assault is Not an Accident" - just because she blacked-out does not mean you-stranger have a right to penetrate her #duh unbelievable Stanford elite graduates could be so stupid Best to: a very long read about the 18-months journey from day of blackout assault, to court filing and trials, recovery/therapy/insomnia and final statements of Chanel Miller - making a case for all assaulted victims 👏 Best for: it's an important book but it's just very long and

BATB score: 4/10 🤷‍♀️ after surviving the horrendous concentration camp, Viktor Frankl had to relearn how to be happy; proceeding back to his normal life as a psychiatrist / philosopher lecturer but this time covering deeper topics on the Meaning of Life (from a Holocaust survivor POV); this book is his famous 3 lectures Best to: intensive Viktor Frankl's 2.5 hours monologue; a philosophy university class at its best, you know how the professor is for sure saying something s