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