Reddit reviews Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text (French Edition)

You'd probably find this english/french "parallel" book (and others like it) pretty useful and in the genre of what you are looking for.

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• fe will search the french-english dictionary
  
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Penguin books does side-by-side short stories (New Penguin Parallel Text, in French...I have the Japanese one), and personally I'd say French first.

The parallel text makes it easier to go sentence by sentence, so I'll read the Japanese side first, and go back and read the English side so I can practice picking up the Japanese first, instead of going in knowing what it says. It's also a good test to see if you remember this or that word from when you looked it up last time, and maybe by the 5th time you'll have it down pat. This is totally unfounded personal opinion so take it with a grain of salt, but I feel like reading the language you're trying to learn first helps you learn more.

I picked this up at a book store last week.

Penguin has a line of books: https://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-French-Penguin-Parallel/dp/0140265430

I have a book called "Short Stories in French" -- has parallel pages with the exact translations: http://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-French-Penguin-Parallel/dp/0140265430

The assimil books are like that - French on one page with English translation on the facing page.

Also if you just want to read stories, then there are the Penguin Parallel texts.

You might want to consider "Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text," available from Amazon or Barnes and Noble. Also available at Waterstones if you're in the UK.

I've got a lot of benefit from reading 'parallel texts' (par example https://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-French-Penguin-Parallel/dp/0140265430 ) - I don't know your exact level but I really enjoy it and the translations on the other side of the page are accurate and helpful.

I'm afraid I don't know about The Kite Runner but equivalent books in French would probably push you quite hard. It's normally best with reading not to have to look too much up because it can be a drag. It's also why I'd recommend sticking to shorter works.

You might like to look into some parallel texts (ie French on one page with the corresponding translation on the opposite side). They really help when you come across difficult idioms and mean you can read easily out and about when you don't have a dictionary to hand. Here's a collection of short stories in French. There are more in this series. They will be harder than Le Petit Prince but it seems you might enjoy more literary writing.

If you're worried about difficulty you might like to look at this Easy French Reader which gets progressively harder. In fact, this might be the best stepping stone for you.

I have a copy of Le Petit Prince that has French on one side and Tunisian Arabic on the other. I also have a book of Mahmoud Darwish's poetry that is Arabic/English. One thing I like is that Penguin puts out a collection of "Parallel Text" books that are collections of short stories. My SO has the French one.

Sure. This, this and others.