Picks and Pans Review: Nora Recommends: "three Books That Are Older Than I Am"

By Nora Ephron, JOSH EMMONS, KIM HUBBARD, K.C. BAKER

UPDATED 11/15/2010 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 11/15/2010 at 01:00 AM EST

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

by Edith Wharton

Money, women, marriage. Why isn't anyone writing fiction about this today?

BLEAK HOUSE

by Charles Dickens

A family and a contested will. Only the lawyers win. It's as contemporary today as it was then.

THE GREAT GATSBY

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In my 20s, I thought it was about love; in my 40s, I thought it was about money. It's a Rorschach.