Philosophy On The Public Library Shelves

As a teenager, and beyond, I benefited greatly from the philosophy shelves of my local public library. Later, as a philosophy undergraduate, the local library was useful in different ways. Later still, as a subject specialist librarian, I was responsible for the selection and management of the philosophy shelves in two different library systems. And latterly, as a middle‐manager in an era of reduced prosperity, it has been my sad task to reduce stocks on the philosophy shelves. Such varied experience: as user and provider, as graduate and freewheeler, as bibliophile and hatchet man, has caused me to think much on the subject. What philosophy books should the public library have on its shelves?