About your world challenge too, might consider Henryk Sienkiewicz's (Poland) "Quo Vadis" or "The Trilogy" (With Fire and Sword, The Deluge and Fire in the Steppe) which I think is the Polish national epic. And happens to be free here, in the Ebook section.
I've read With Fire and Sword and Quo Vadis (in paper) and enjoyed both very much.
All 4 volumes of the Swedish national epic are in Kindle, I forget all 4 names but Vol 1 is "The Emigrants" by Vilhelm Moberg. They're pretty expensive in Kindle so you could check the library.
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That's all I know.