BiPaR is a manually annotated bilingual parallel novel-style machine reading comprehension (MRC) dataset, developed to support monolingual, multilingual and cross-lingual reading comprehension on novels. The biggest difference between BiPaR and existing reading comprehension datasets is that each triple (Passage, Question, Answer) in BiPaR is written in parallel in two languages. BiPaR is diverse in prefixes of questions, answer types and relationships between questions and passages. Answering the questions requires reading comprehension skills of coreference resolution, multi-sentence reasoning, and understanding of implicit causality.