BATB score: 10/10 🥇👑❣️ Brilliance. Inspirational. Well-written autobiography. 10 10 10! Best to: READ THIS ASAP. Malala Yousafzai aka 'the girl shot by the Taliban (15 y/o)' aka youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner (17 y/o) aka activist for the right of all children to education aka #Hallelujah Best for: #AllLivesMatter and us all who may have taken free/affordable education for granted Best as: a kick in the nuts to all teenagers out there striking a pose for Instagram and/or

BATB score: 10/10 🧜‍♀️💫🧚 How Robert Iger started from the bottom now he's here (Disney Chairman WOOT!). A collection of all the key tipping points he has learnt throughout his life. #InnovateorDIE Best as: a reminder that being a good employee making your way up the typical corporate ladder is an undervalued and under-appreciated lifestyle. Robert Iger's annual salary is 65.7M as Disney CEO. His net worth is 690M. Best to: remember that great leaders stay humble #stopbragg

BATB score: 10/10 ❣️ Strongly Recommend! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ How could one endure so much on a route of the unknown with trickery, trafficking and bribes for the mere basics of freedom? #sob #lifeinjustice #KimDictatorship Best for: all of us - there are more struggles, sufferings, and life threats that one can face more than one can imagine Best to: I felt like giving up many times from reading her 11 years journey; I surrender, I am a coward. 🏳️ #FML #KillMeNow Best as: maybe we hold t

BATB score: 10/10 💚🤑💚 Legendary old school classics on how to escape the middle class paycheck-pay-bills Rat Race 🐭 via making money work for you. Never gets old. Best for: anyone who has been caught saying “I am waiting for my next promotion or year-end bonus” or anyone living on paychecks, you are working hard yes? but are you working smart? Best as: here’s the plan. paycheck to savings to assets (stocks, bonds, real estate) to passive income (interests, dividends, rent

BATB score: 9.99/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ whaa they've divorced. Melinda Gates, what you've done and shared is eye/heart-opening to how privileged and ignorant we all can be. The stories, the thought process, the bottom-up methodology, and the passion is heartfelt. #philantrophy Best for: "When you have more than you need at a material level, what's next? Where do our gifts connect with a need in the world?" - Melinda Gates #fangirlfainting Best as: a reminder that there are so many more im

BATB score: 7/10 🌟 I would love to hear Hans Rosling's opinion on our current covid19 pandemic - especially how he noticed that Ebola spread via moving Ebola-dead-loved-ones around communities as a cultural ritual of respect. Best for: it's a memoir; true fanclubs of Hans Rosling #RIPHansRosling Fanclub criteria: (1) have read and loved "Factfulness" by Hans, Ola, and Anna Rosling (2) have watched and adored Hans' 2006 TED Talk Best to: complete the fanclub criteria both #1

BATB score: 4.5/10 🧠👨‍⚕️ Best as: scientifically accurate neurological required reading for the aspiring practitioners: occipital lobe, hemispherectomy, epilepsy, CT scans, to say the least Best to: acknowledge that the brain is the smartest organ hands down; did you know that the brain feels no pain? thus all brain surgery is preferred to be done with the patient fully conscious; except the cracking the skull part Best for: practicing doctors, neurosurgeons, and/or doctor-

BATB score: 8/10 👑 Back in 1532, Machiavelli wrote a 'How to be a Powerful Prince for Dummy Princes 101'. Best for: a very delicate playbook on how to manage/lobby your power game for existing and newly conquered colonies, loyal servants, and abolished toxic minds; topics are extremely relevant to today's office politics (except the 'killing those who hate you' part) Best as: a how-to political manual; from corrupting with soldiers, keeping noblemen in line, soliciting an ad

BATB score: 9/10 Best for: Laura Clery's diehard fans; you must have binge watched Laura Clery's Facebook Watch videos prior to considering this book Best as: there has always been an addict lingering in us; a first hand account of an addict, to sobriety, to success - a personal anecdote (that many would not admit) from looking at ceilings to feeling this is it (the end of life) to success the way we define it Best for: all of us to start watching Laura Clery's Facebook video

BATB score: 8.8/10 ⭐ From concentration camp to a life sentence in hard-labour camp, how can an innocent 16-year-old girl survive? Shaved (both head and privates), starved, beaten, and raped, how can one still have hope? Best to: read Heather Morris' "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" book first to understand what horrible things already happened and to continue with what other horrible things continued Best for: there's nothing more cruel than the Nazi Concentration Camp 1933-1945

BATB score: 6.6/10 🤑 Best to: admit it, financial literary is critical 🔥 Best as: unfortunately our educational institutes are still in denial and societal discussions have a taboo against money talk #bragging #notbragging Best for: reader who has completed Rich Dad Poor Dad first and foremost Book key takeaway: get into good debt as business owners and investors (rather than employees and self-employment) -> engage in primary savings (commodities: oil, gold, and silver), s

BATB score: 8/10 🥰 I feel unlocked, uncaged, and untamed! I am a CHEETAH! 🐯🐲🐾 Best as: all the societal judgement and ladylike expectations limits us to be true to ourselves; in no other life (because we only have one life), let you be you. Best for: who run the world? cheetahs! 🙋‍♀️ Best to: a powerful self improvement book via Glennon's stories; there must be something that you can relate to: christianity, LGBTQI+, divorced, bulimia, alcoholism, adam&eve, children, eve

BATB score: 10/10 🤍 This book is a series of interviews about life and death from a dying soul's perspective - “once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Best to: a slap in the face to all of us who traded dreams for a bigger paycheck #idiot likeas we have years to spare Best for: all of us questioning, finding, and believing in the meaning of life Best as: "the most important thing in life is to learn how to give our love and to let it come in" Random thought: damn

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