Ranked: What Defines A Culture? How To Belong To A Community?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: What Defines A Culture? How To Belong To A Community?

These books try to define a what is a culture.  A culture is a community.  Books that try to provide guidance on how to belong to a community.  And the potential consequences.    

What Is Culture:

1. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
2. Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives by Michele Gelfand
3. World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea

The Value Of A Community:

1. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
2. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker

The Value Of A Community / Fiction:

1. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

How To Belong To A Community:

1. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
2. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
3. The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
4. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
5. Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
6. On Obligations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
7. The Politics by Aristotle
8. [Upcoming] Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
9. [Upcoming] Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
10. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
11. The Republic Of Plato by Plato, and Allan Bloom

How To Belong To A Community / Fiction:

1. [Upcoming] The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
2. A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
3. The Guest by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
4. The Growing Stone by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)

How A Community Changes:

1. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
2. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
3. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
4. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
5. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
6. Buddha by Karen Armstrong
7. Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose by John Nathan

Lack Of Community:

1. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson

Consequences Of A Community:

1. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
2. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
3. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
4. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
5. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
6. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
7. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
8. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
9. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
10. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
11. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
12. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
13. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
14. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
15. Black Boy by Richard Wright
16. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
17. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene
18. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
19. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault

Consequences Of A Community / Fiction:

1. Berlin by Jason Lutes
2. Elektra by Jennifer Saint
3. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Types Of Communities:

1. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
2. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
3. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
4. Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
5. [Upcoming] An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
6. Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
7. How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
8. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
9. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
10. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
11. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
12. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
13. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
14. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
15. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
16. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
17. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
18. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
19. Ancient Greece: From Beginning To End by Stephan Weaver

How Culture Shapes Thought:

1. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
2. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
3. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
4. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
5. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams