This Year's Book

The 2026 LONG ISLAND READS pick is…

The Doorman by Chris Pavone

Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, New York City’s world-famous home of celebrities, financiers, and the cultural elite. As Chicky changes into his uniform for his shift, he finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job: tonight, he’ll be carrying a gun, and pandemonium is taking over the city. Chicky knows there’s more going on in his patch of sidewalk in front of the Bohemia than anyone’s aware of. Tonight in the city, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed—and lives will be lost.

Why The Doorman?

• “With its laser-sharp satire, its delicious set pieces, and its portrait of a restive city torn apart by inequality, resentment and excess, The Doorman naturally invites comparison to The Bonfire of the Vanities, but Pavone’s humor is more humane, his sympathy for the characters’ struggles and contradictions more acute.”  ―Sarah Lyall, The New York Times

• “Mr. Pavone has written an outstanding book full of sociological detail and pulsing with the passions and prejudices  of the times in which we live.” 

―Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal

• “Pavone grew up in Brooklyn and spent many weekends and holidays in Cutchogue, where his grandparents had lived since 1968. In his early 20s, he took a hiatus from the North Fork, only to return upon meeting his wife, Madeline, renting houses in Southold and, eventually, moving to Village Lane in Orient, where he and his family spend most summers” 

―Suffolk Times

• The book is available in both regular and large print, ebook, and downloadable audiobook formats.

~Learn more about The Doorman and reserve your copy now:

Nassau County

Suffolk County

Long Island Reads will honor Chris Pavone at a ceremony at the Half Hollow Hills Library (Dix Hills Branch) on Sunday, April 26 at 2pm.

Long Island Reads takes place annually throughout the month of April. Many Nassau and Suffolk County libraries feature Long Island Reads programs and book discussions.

For more information contact:

Suffolk co-chair: Mara Zonderman / maraz@westhamptonlibrary.org

Nassau co-chair: Deborah Kinirons / dkinirons@uniondalelibrary.org