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Before anything else, learn some basic logic and critical thinking. It makes finding the argument of a passage, as well as its strengths and weaknesses significantly easier. Patrick J. Hurley's "A Concise Introduction to Logic" is the book I used, and if you get an older edition you can get it for really cheap. After that, it really depends on what you want out of philosophy. It's a really big subject, so it'd be hard to give you a good reading list without knowing what exactly interests you. There's philosophy of science, medicine, history, religion, etc., political philosophy, and basically every other combination of an academic subject + philosophy, and more.