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Depends on your background. Mac Lane is the standard text and he is a phenomenal author in general, but it builds off knowledge of concepts such as modules, tensor products and homotopy (I still don't have a sufficient background in AT to be honest though). For a more modest background, I would recommend the book "Sets for Mathematics" by Lawvere and Rosebrugh. The book is entirely on category theory, the title is because there is a focus on the category of sets. The first chapter or so is deceptively simple, it gets very difficult as it goes on, but still doesn't require much specific background.
I'll also note that I first got into the subject through a whim purchase in a local Borders of a cheap dover book Topoi by Robert Goldblatt when I was very into mathematical logic. It's 500 pages and requires pretty much no background (I'd know what a topological space is, but I can't think of anything else). It gets very challenging though, and I never got more than 250 pages in before getting overwhelmed, but the first hundred pages really sparked my interest in category theory. Functors (and especially adjoint functors) are postponed much later than you will see in many other sources though. You can find a link to an online version free from the author's webpage too.