A selection of works that are accessible, important, and mind expanding. I chose these to help folks who find many of the 'classics' of philosophy unintelligible - think Kant and Heidegger. The works I mention and recommended translator:

Ecce Homo by Nietzsche Kaufmann or Hollingsdale

Meditation my Marcus Aurelius George Long

Lives of Imminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius Charles Yonge

Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy Van Norden and Ivanhoe

Plato Symposium and Phaedrus Jowett

Schopenhauer Essay and Aphorisms Penguin edition

Plutarch's Essays Penguin Classics

William James Pragmatism and Other Writings Penguin

Descartes Discourse on Method and Other Writings Penguin