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: 8.9/10 Context: Thailand's Prime Minister aka Military Junta Commander in Chief aka Uncle Toodaloo recommended his Thai citizens to read this book to better understand how to live in UNITY in the midst of desperate political clashes. The fable is leaps and bounds away from the slightest hints of UNITY. Not quite sure what he meant there. Quick slurp of the famous pig tale: a pig said all animals are equal, secretly made pig allies, hid resources to pig-selves, oth

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: 3.33/10 💔 Third time, third book was not the charm. Khaled, this wasn't your best. We know your past masterpieces; we know you can do better. I am sorry to say you are no longer in the running to be mister all-stars novelist. Best as: a bummer performance dropped head first, so much communal anticipation and expectation left with broken hearts Best to: you must read 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini in this lifetime; you must. Be

BATB score: 4.5/10 💔 Disclaimer: fiction is never my cup of tea especially romantic classic fiction like #NicholasSparks definitely makes me cringe a lot Best to: fake an appreciation to those who experienced their first love from "The Notebook" Best as: it's like classic chic flick in 90s book form; now with Tinder and Covid19, I don't think love works that way anymore. Best for: so far the book with the most 'I love you' sss Spoiler Alert: two exes meet, dumped current fia

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: 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: 10/10 🤍 for heaven and everyone up there Best to: beautifully written, very easy to grasp on the concepts of death, love, life, sacrifices, memories, and meaning Best for: maybe the best self-help book out there! powerfully narrated via a short novel; more moving than any 1-2-3 step self-growth book Now, I am reminiscing about all the faces and friendships; and now this extrovert-turned-introvert me who is living in midlife solitude just want to cry an ugly cry B

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