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: 5/10 🎯 This book is about taking a step back and understanding your true meaning of life, whether you have committed to such ambitions or have delayed such gratification. Claiming that friends and family are important to you yet will cancel on them for ad hoc work 💯%. Best to: the first half of the book was legit strong 💪 while the second half was a tad bit watery and wonky; yet definitely good stuff in its entirety, easily digestible and an easy read Best for:

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: 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: 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 💢 Not bad but boring. Best to: finding good points in this book was like finding needles in the haystack among the clustered anecdotes; they're there but where? the book can be summarised into a one-pager. Best for: street protestors. the book talks about how to avoid and resolve high conflicts; in a way, the opposite can be used to start one 🔥 Best as: "Real change requires putting sustained pressure on people and institutions that benefit from the current

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 🌟 Life-changing book for all people managers. Are you a genius or are you a genius maker? Best to: concise, tangible, practical 💯 how the best leaders make everyone smarter; two types of managers out there: diminishers and multipliers; multipliers get 2X from their team and builds a legacy as a genius maker Best for: should be a required read for all people managers; raise your hands if you have asked for more headcount yet your team is working hard but no

BATB score: 6.3/10 💛 Best to: first 50-pages game strong intel, the rest 170 pages were alright Best for: when your creative director recommends a book into a world of colourful creative minds, you do what it takes to see things from the same wonderland viewpoint Best as: Dave Trott writing style - short story snippets 2-3 pages long and moving on to the next chop chop story; legit easy read Best quotes: “you can have what you want, or you can have your reasons for not havin

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: 3/10 🙊🗣🙉 *Reader discretion advised* Daniel Kahneman devotees, you are not going to like what I am about to say... Best to: Kahneman himself wrote in his book's introduction that it is advisable to skip part 3 & 4 of this 6-part book. How odd is that? What kind of good author writes a book that is so difficult to digest, too technical and too watery (not conveying any impactful learnings relative to the number of pages) and admittedly recommends readers to skip

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: 9/10 💙 Best to: a twist to you only live once #yolo, live today like it's your last, the art of not giving a f*ck, and other time is finite mantras Best for: over-achievers, move fast rushers, high productivity zombies to take a chill pill 💊 Best as: we only have four thousand weeks; i am on my 1616/4000 week; with that said, am I living my current week the way I utmost want to? Best quote: “even the winners in our achievement-obsessed culture - the ones who mak

BATB score: 10/10 🖤 nobody writes about our inevitable mortality like Dr. Atul Gawande #bravo 👏 Best to: our impulse is to fight death - chemo, surgery, sutures, bring it; there is always something more that the doctors can do. but the fact that we are trying so hard to fix things may be shortening or worsening the time we hardly have left. so is it quantity or quality? Best for: all of us. eye-opening; ask your loved ones today "if time becomes short, what is most importan

BATB score: 10/10 🤩❤️🔥 Mitch Albom is a hands-down brilliant author #hallelujah Best to: writings from the heart that touches souls; a very simple storyline yet makes you think about heaven, hope, and love; a feel good book that makes you believe in the beauty of life again Best for: do read Mitch Albom - for people trying to develop a productive reading habit, you can read this book in one sitting Best as: a lot of quotable snippets Best quotes: “There are two stories for

BATB score: 3/10 😒 This book incorporates 28 interview with 28 global top leaders on their business strategic thoughts with Covid19. Interviews were conducted in 2020 so most leaders were still exceptionally optimistic. Best as: this book is like Where is Waldo? but Where is the point? kinda twist; mostly every interview has one key kicker comment that’s quotable, the rest is shit Best to: just read the last chapter (chapter 29 - last 9 pages) of the book at the bookstore; t

BATB score: 9/10 🤩 Best to: legit snack-able, relatable, practical storytelling version to the worlds of Yunal Noah Harari's mission to uncover who we were, who we are, and who will we be Best for: anyone who struggled to finish Yunal Noah Harari's books; this cartoon version of his famous Sapiens book is made for you and me; thank god for this "for dummies" version #hallelujah Best as: did you know that there were 6 species of hominins aka humans? Homo sapiens is not only o

BATB score: 10/10 💙 This book changed my life the first time I read it in 2018. Re-reading this book today in 2021, now that I am two step higher on the corporate ladder, the lessons are even more legit and critical. Best to: an appropriate slap-in-the-face. Stop thinking that the world is just, that your talents and contributions would be recognized and a promotion is due, that you don't have to play office politics to be noticed, that you will not corrupt your way up, that

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