Don F. - I would much prefer to think of yourself and I as equals rather than engage in fruitless attempts to establish who resides at a loftier position of intellectual grandeur...or who has acquired the more prestigious reading list in the last 50 years of his life. ;-)

As you said, "everyone is a philosopher in his or her own way". Correct. That's good enough. If a person is strongly interested in how people think, and why, and interested enough to spend some time on understanding it, and interested in self-observation too, then he's a philosopher in his or her own way. And that's what I am.

I've read plenty of fascinating books in the last 50 years. I am not going to start listing them, because I'm not even slightly interested in trying to outdo you or impress you. It doesn't matter.