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Having recently (last year) read The Old Man and the Sea, I can claim with some confidence that while it wasn't written in the last 30 years, it's timeless. Really, this didn't feel like an 'old' book. The language is modern, the story not dependent on any particular time -- frankly it could as easily have been written last year as 65 years ago.
On length -- I'm not likely to nominate a book much over 400 pages. Not because it doesn't mean I never read any longer than that, just that it can be hard for people to carve out that much reading time. Especially if they first have to wait to get a copy from their library. I read 150 books a year, so I can find time to read whatever. But that's not true for everyone.
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