This sounds interesting:
What is your answer to the following question, “Which books do you consider to be classics in philosophy?” You may say, The Republic or Nicomachean Ethics or Meditations on First Philosophy. The answer can vary greatly from person to person. It would be interesting to find out if anyone would include Mortimer Adler’s Ten Philosophical Mistakes. This provocative book, first published in 1985, was Adler’s presentation of the errors of modern Western philosophy. He possessed an uncanny ability to explain difficult philosophical concepts in a manner that could be easily understood. This ability and his passion for promoting the relevance and practical significance of philosophy was arguably the reason as to why Time magazine once referred to Mortimer Alder as the “philosopher for everyman.”
If I were to recommend a good starting philosophy book that wouldn’t overwhelm a novice, my pick would be either Zeno and the Tortise by Nicholas Fern, or anything from the Introducing Philosophy series, which includes many other topics beyond philosophy. If I were really ambitious, I’d offer Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy, but sadly I doubt many college or high school prep students would actually read the book.