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

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: 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:

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

The Value Of A Community:

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

The Value Of A Community / Fiction:

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

How To Belong To A Community:

• [Upcoming] Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
• Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
• Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
• The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
• [Upcoming] Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
• The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
• On Obligations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The Politics by Aristotle
• The Republic Of Plato by Plato, and Allan Bloom
• [Upcoming] Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
• Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith

How To Belong To A Community / Fiction:

• The Growing Stone by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
• The Guest by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
• The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
• A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh

How A Community Changes:

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

Lack Of Community:

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

Consequences Of A Community:

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

Consequences Of A Community / Fiction:

• Berlin by Jason Lutes
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Elektra by Jennifer Saint
• The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Types Of Communities:

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

How Culture Shapes Thought:

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