je veux lires des livres en Français. 

Je suis en train d'apprendre le français.C'est trés difficile pour moi.

je veux lire des livres en français. La premier est Candide (Voltaire).

hi Andrew ! 

Actually , i doń´t think that choosing Candide for your first experience to read a french book is a great idea , mainly cause it´s quiet hard to unerdstand , even for a native speaker.

i believe that you should try easier stuffs  like a newspaper, for example.If you really want to move forward you should pick (la gloire de mon père ) a book wrote by Marcel Pagnol

My 2 cents.

Feel free to correct my answer .