I don't like to read translations, because I believe that something is lost when literature is translated out of its original language. However, bilingual books (sometimes called dual-language books) are a great way to enjoy literature when your language skills aren't quite good enough to read the original. The following books are French classics that include the original French as well as an English translation, so that you can compare them as you read.
1. Selected Short Stories / Contes choisies
Short stories by Honoré de Balzac in French and English.
2. Introduction to French Poetry
Dual-language (French and English) book of poetry.3. Selected Fables / Fables Choisies
Read Jean de la Fontaine's classic fables in French and English.4. Selected "Pensées" and Provincial Letters / Pensées et Provinciales Choisies
Works by Blaise Pascal in French and English.5. Flowers of Evil and Other Works / Les Fleurs du mal et oeuvres choisies
Charles Beaudelaire's classic "Les Fleurs du mal" and other works in French and English.6. Tartuffe and The Bourgeois Gentleman / Le Tartuffe et Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Two plays by Molière in French and English.7. Two Stories / Deux Nouvelles
Two stories by Henri Marie Beyle Stendhal (author of "Le Rouge et le Noir).8. The Immoralist / L'Immoraliste
André Gide's novel in French and English.10. Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories
Read a variety of nineteenth-century short stories in French and English.