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1. Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
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Oxford University Press, USA
2. Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays
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I think my favourite introductory book was Blackburn's Think, which was just a good all-round explanation of lots of areas of philosophy. Another excellent book was The Philosophy Book which goes through the history of philosophy and explains the (or one of the) 'big idea' of the major philosophers. One really nice thing they do is for each of these they do a flow chart of the philosopher's argument for their view, which I found a really useful thing for understanding. Other very good introductory books are the philosophy-related books in the Very Short Introductions series by OUP, for example they have ones on lots of the big philosophers, as well as on ethics, free will, philosophy of science, existentialism, metaphysics, logic, the meaning of life etc.
For non-book stuff, I highly recommend the Philosophy bites podcast. Basically these are reasonably short (10-20 min) highly accessible interviews with professional philosophers. There have been so many now that there's one for practically any topic you find interesting and they are all very high quality philosophy.
What might also be useful to you are the resources on the Routledge site for the UK Philosophy A-Level (i.e. in the last two years of our equivalent of high school we do 3-5 A-Level qualifications, and one of the ones you can choose from is Philosophy) which Routledge publishes a textbook for. There are lots of pdf documents on there written to help students understand the various topics which are worth looking at. N.B. AS refers to the 1st year of A-Level and A2 to the second year, so the AS resources will be simpler than the A2 ones.
Get "Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays". I highly recommend it in any Philosophical toolkit. It'll help with reading, writing, and understanding Philosophy.
Also, the "60 Second Adventures In Thought" series is a quick start into some famous thought experiments.
Five Dialogues was a good start for me.
However, what had really gotten me interested in philosophy, were talks from Terence McKenna. There are hours of dialogue on youtube you could listen to.
Five Dialogues
Terrence Mckenna