Sometimes you want to read in German. 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 German books to enjoy since you can practice your German 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, German short stories and beginner and intermediate German books, all with the support of the helpful English-language text.

Try these English - German bilingual books from German and Foreign authors.

Charles Dickens - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Leo Tolstoy - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- ANNA KARENINA

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

- THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA

Voltaire - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- CANDIDE

Oscar Wilde - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- FAIRY TALES

- SALOME

- THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

- THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

William Shakespeare - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- MACBETH

- THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET

- HAMLET

Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- FROM THE LIFE OF A GOOD-FOR-NOTHING

Charlotte Bronte - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- JANE EYRE

Gustave Flaubert - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- MADAME BOVARY

Wilhelm Busch - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- MAX AND MORITZ

Edgar Allan Poe - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

Victor Hugo - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Niccolo Machiavelli - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- THE PRINCE

Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- THE RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSE

Heinrich Hoffmann - Bilingual Edition: English - German

- THE SANDMAN