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 Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
2. Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
3. On Obligations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
4. The Politics by Aristotle

How To Belong To A Community / Fiction:

1. A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
2. The Guest by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
3. 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 Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
3. Buddha by Karen Armstrong
4. 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. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
4. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
5. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
6. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
7. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
8. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
9. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
10. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
11. Black Boy by Richard Wright
12. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
13. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene
14. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
15. 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

Types Of Communities:

1. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
2. Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
3. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
4. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
5. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
6. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
7. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
8. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
9. 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. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
3. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand