Books I have read till now which could be said to meet the expectations I set above:
1. Iliad and The Odyssey
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh
3. The Aeneid
4. Bhagavad Gita
5. History of the Peloponnesian War
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Books which could definitely be considered Epics but not enough time has passed for them to reach that revered stratosphere of national epics. (NOT LOOKING FOR THESE)
1. War and Peace
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edward Gibbons
3. The Second World War. Winston Churchill
4. Wolf Hall
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I have narrowed it down to 4 choices
Before you say Beowulf I say to you "ROPE AND COPE"
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!bookworms need help with finding Japanese/Chinese/Korean Ancient epics. Suggestions?
I'm seeing there's a trend that most of the greatest historical epics stretch from Mediterranean to present day Afghanistan and North West India. The same region which was said to be the land of the Aryans. !nooticers
!bharatiya should have consulted you guys before doing this but I just express ordered the Vivek DevRoy translation (I would trust an Indian translator more than a non Indian one) but I don't know if there are better ones. Do you think it's a good enough translation?
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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This is such the 'duh' answer
that it mystifies me why OP even bothered making this post.
See also: Journey into the West, The Water
Margin, Dreams of the Red Chamber and Hong Kong Phooey episodes 1-16.
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Yes. I have. Do you know what you get if you tried searching "great historical epics"?
Fricking LOTR makes every rank. At that rate I would have to make note of every chingchong sounding name then cross reference it to Wikipedia to see their dates if they are really epics or just famous books. Then select the best one or two among them and then I would have to again check reddit and other forums if it is the equivalent of Herodotus' Histories (what I want to read) or Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (it's an ancient classic work but it's not an epic).
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I know it's not what you're looking
for but The Last Kingdom 
series 
by Bernard Cornwell is both historical 
and, y'kno, good.
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Only chinks can read and understand [..] Red Chamber.
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It's not hard...
A talking stone
tells a guy to build 
a garden and then generations of foids 
argue about men in it.
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Yeah when you dumb it down to that level no book is difficult.
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Patrician taste.
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You have to be very high IQ to understand the work of Scatman Crothers.
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Nice suggestion bro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Chinese_Novels
Found this entire section on Wikipedia and I'm going to search for good translations now
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