Ranked: What Is The Power Of Belief Systems?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: What Is The Power Of Belief Systems?

Belief systems incorporate philosophy, myths, faith, spirituality, and religion.  

Application Of Belief Systems:

1. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
2. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
3. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
4. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
5. The Divided State: Factional Structures and the Crisis of Democracy by Joonhong Park
6. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
7. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
8. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
9. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
10. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
11. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
12. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
13. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
14. A Treatise on Efficacy: Between Western and Chinese Thinking by François Jullien
15. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
16. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
17. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
18. The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
19. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
20. Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption by Mark C. Taylor
21. Man Against Himself by Karl Menninger

Fiction:

1. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
3. The Renegade, or A Confused Mind by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)

Various:

1. Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources by Robert W. Strayer
2. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
3. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
4. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
5. Why? The Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff
6. World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea
7. The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul by Connie Zweig
8. The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
9. A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
10. A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich

Critique:

1. If Ignorance Is Bliss, We Should All Be Ecstatic by Fred Leavitt
2. [Upcoming] The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
3. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
4. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Abrahamic:

1. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
2. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
3. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said

Christianity:

1. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
2. Inquisition by Edward Peters
3. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
4. Charlemagne by Johannes Fried
5. (Circa 1420s-1431 Century C.E.) Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
6. Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763 by Henry Kamen
7. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
8. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
9. From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress
10. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
11. Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson

Christianity / Mormons:

1. (Circa 1851-1957 C.E.) Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson

Christianity / Critique:

1. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
2. The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
3. Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor
4. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
5. The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
6. Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age by A. C. Grayling
7. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
8. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
9. The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine

Christianity / Fiction:

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The River Why by David James Duncan

Islam:

1. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
2. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
3. The Golden Age of Islam by Maurice Lombard
4. A History of Medieval Islam by J.J. Saunders
5. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
6. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

Judaism:

1. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand

Judaism / Application:

1. [Upcoming] (Circa 1940s - 2023 C.E.) The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul by Isabel Kershner
2. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

United States of America:

1. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis

Aztecs:

1. Aztecs: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

Buddhism:

1. Buddha by Karen Armstrong
2. Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
3. Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
4. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser

Zen:

1. Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies

Confucianism:

1. Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
2. The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill

Daoism:

1. Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
2. Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao by Lao Tzu

Stoicism:

1. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

Egyptian:

1. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Greece:

Olympian Gods: (See Also Roman Empire)

1. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
2. Greek Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans by Ross Tanner

Philosophy:

1. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
2. The Republic Of Plato by Plato, and Allan Bloom

Stoicism:

1. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

Fiction:

1. Circe by Madeline Miller
2. Elektra by Jennifer Saint

Mesopotamian:

1. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek

Mongolia (Tengri):

1. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau

Roman Empire:

1. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Olympian Gods: (See Also Greece)

1. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton

Stoicism:

1. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
2. (Circa 2nd Century C.E.) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Shinto:

1. Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies

Viking:

1. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
2. Norse Mythology: Gods, Heroes and the Nine Worlds of Norse Mythology by Stephan Weaver