Ryan
Workman
B i o g r a p h y
Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
Heidegger's 'Being and Time' is my favorite work of philosophy, primarily because it changed my attitude towards life. For me, Heidegger's greatest insight was that death is a part of life, and that accepting this is an important part of living authentically.
Shattered Sea Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
Abercrombie's art is his ability to make the most awful characters likable, and to have me turning page after page hoping that they will decide to be better people.
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
My love of reading started with 'The Hobbit', which probably still holds the record for the book I have read the most times.
Other recommended readings
Academic and philosophical literature
The Happiness Hypothesis - Jonathan Haidt
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
Pragmatism - William James
Thoughts on the Unthinkable - Lee Braver
Dilemmas in a general theory of planning - Rittel and Webber
Policing and criminal justice
The Functions of the Police in Modern Society - Egon Bittner
Conflicts as Property - Nils Christie
Better Living Through Police Discretion - Harold E. Pepinsky
Fiction
The Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone
Spellslinger - Sebastian de Castell
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Checquy Files - Daniel O'Malley