Zeno and the Tortoise [review]
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The day Wittgenstein came back to Cambridge after nine years of absence, John Maynard Keynes, a great admirer of his works, wrote to his wife: "Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5.15."
Full Title:
Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think Like a Philosopher
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I feel like I need to justify myself for reading this book - it's an introduction to the mental tools of philosophy employed by great thinkers from Plato all the way up to Derrida, and I picked it up not to learn "how to think like a philosopher" (good god) but because it was £0.50 in a second hand bookstore, and Fearn has a particularly lucid prose style. It's a very useful and pithy overview of the history of philosophy, even though it omits a great deal (by design and necessity), so if you're making your first forays into the subject, I recommend it for that purpose alone.