Sometimes you want to read in French. Sometimes you want to read in English.
There’s a great option: bilingual books!
Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the French books to enjoy since you can practice your French without being in over your head.
Plus, there are plenty of different types of bilingual books, so there’s something out there for any learner at any level. You can read children’s books, French short stories and beginner and intermediate French books, all with the support of the helpful English-language text.
Try these English - French bilingual books from French and Foreign authors.
Alexandre Dumas - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS
- THE THREE MUSKETEERS
Ambrose Gwinnett - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE
Arthur Conan Doyle - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- A STUDY IN SCARLET
- RODNEY STONE
- THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
- THE GREAT SHADOW
- THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
- THE LOST WORLD
- THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
- THE POISON BELT
- THE SIGN OF THE FOUR
- THE VALLEY OF FEAR
Bram Stoker - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- DRACULA
Charles Dickens - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- OLIVIER TWIST
Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE SONG OF ROLAND
Charles Perrault - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE
Charlotte Bronte - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- JANE EYRE
- THE PROFESSOR
Daniel Defoe - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- MOLL FLANDERS
- THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE
Edgar Allan Poe - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE BLACK CAT
- THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Edith Wharton - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
Emile Zola - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- GERMINAL
- THERESE RAQUIN
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA
Gustave Flaubert - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- MADAME BOVARY
Guy de Maupassant - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- BOULE DE SUIF
- PIERRE AND JEAN
Hans Christian Andersen - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE SNOW QUEEN
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
Herbert George Wells - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND
- THE TIME MACHINE
- THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Honore de Balzac - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- GOBSECK
- SARRASINE
Ivan Turgenev - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE DIARY OF A SUPERFLUOUS MAN
James Fenimore Cooper - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- AFLOAT AND ASHORE
- THE DEERSLAYER
- THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
- THE MONIKINS
- THE PATHFINDER
- THE PRAIRIE
Jerome Klapka Jerome - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THREE MEN IN A BOAT
Jules Verne - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
- JOURNEY INTO THE INTERIOR OF THE EARTH
- THE ADVENTURES OF THREE ENGLISHMEN AND THREE RUSSIANS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
- THE MUTINEERS OF THE BOUNTY
- THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
Leo Tolstoy - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE DEATH OF IVAN IL'ICH
Lewis Carroll - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Marcel Proust - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- SWANN'S WAY
Mark Twain - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- FRANKENSTEIN, OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
Maurice LeBlanc - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- 813
Nikolai Gogol - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- MEMOIRS OF A MADMAN
- TARAS BULBA
- THE NOSE
Oscar Wilde - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME
- SALOME
- THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
- Prosper Merime - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- CARMEN
Rene Descartes - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD
Robert Louis Stevenson - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- KIDNAPPED
- THE BLACK ARROW
- THE SUICIDE CLUB
- WILL O' THE MILL
Victor Hugo - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Voltaire - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- CANDIDE
Walter Scott - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- IVANHOE
William Shakespeare - Bilingual Edition: English - French
- HAMLET
- MACBETH
- THE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR
- THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET