Reddit reviews Short Stories in Chinese: New Penguin Parallel Text (Chinese Edition)
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short stories! We're reading this in my 4th yr Chinese class now:
http://www.xiexingcun.com/baihuajiang/mydoc013.htm
Starting with bilingual editions can be pretty helpful, too. I read this over the summer and found it to be very useful for me: http://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-Chinese-Penguin-Parallel/dp/0143118358
Being able to glance over at the English now and then made it easier for me to puzzle out certain sentence structures that I wouldn't have been able to figure out on my own.
You should really just start reading anything . . . no matter what you pick up you're going to have to look up characters, but you're definitely going to learn something. I've been studying Chinese for four years and I started reading Xi You Ji for my senior thesis this year and I find it pretty doable, way more doable than I expected.
I have this it's a bit beyond me at the moment but it's Chinese on the left and the text in English on the right
This one.