Our librarians are avid podcast listeners and, of course, passionate readers. Below they've thought about some of their favorite podcasts and and recommend books for folks who are fans of the same podcasts. Podcasts are often good starting points for subjects of interest, and full books are great for that deeper dive. 

One of my favorite podcasts is The Hip Hop Heads. I would pair that with the following books: 3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise by Zack O'Malley Greenburg and God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop by Kathy Iandoli. One of my other favorites podcast is Latinos Who Lunch. I would pair that one with Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. 

—Elisa Garcia (Bronx Library Center)

My podcast/book combo suggestions are: Slate's Slow Burn (Season 1) paired with All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. I would also recommend In the Thick and/or Latino USA paired with Raising Raul by Maria Hinojosa.

—Crystal Chen (Woodstock Library)

If you like the Ear Hustle podcast, you might like: Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better by Maya Schenwar, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (10th anniversary edition!), Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered, orBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson.

Oh also! The friendly, chatty, feminist lefty The Season of the Bitch podcast's website actually has a recommended reading list, including Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici, Cyborg Manifesto (available in Manifestly Haraway by Donna Jeanne Haraway and online), Girls to the Front by Sara Marcus, and The Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James, among others.

—Liz Baldwin (Stavros Niarcos Foundation Library)

The politically-incorrect Red Scare podcast features self-described "bohemian layabout" hosts Anna Khachiyan and Dasha Nekrasova. While their insights into feminism, fashion, the art world, and politics are often cloaked in a facade of irony-drenched and risque edge-lord humor, at the core of their project lurks a rather heartfelt sincerity and earnest moralism. Pairs well with other dour and/or provocative cultural commentaries in the written word, such as Christopher Lasch's Culture of Narcissism, Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae, Andrea Long Chu's Females, and Natasha Stagg's Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019.

—Andrew Fairweather (Seward Park Library)

If you like Reply All’s style of short forays into a whole lot of different things, you might like these short-chapter, different topic, non-fiction journeys: Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson or Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. If you like the deep look they offer at the many ways the internet is changing our lives (and their story #47 "Quit Already!," about the Facebook rant that helped take down a government ), you might like Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power by An Xiao Mina. If you like not knowing what you're going to learn about next, or the random questions from some of their call-in shows, you might enjoy: Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers: A Little Book of Whimsy from the New York Public Library.

—Jill Rothstein (Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library)

For all my Bravo reality show watching friends, I highly recommend the podcast Bitch Sesh with Danielle Schneider and Casey Rose Wilson. While neither have books (yet) I think you'll enjoy checking out the books written by our beloved "Housewives:" Bethenny Frankel, Carole Radziwill, Erika Jayne Girardi, Teresa Giudice, Kyle Richards, Brandi Glanville, Sheree Whitfield, and more, believe it or not!

—Laura Stein (Grand Central Library)

Fans of the #LIPSTORIES podcast may enjoy The Makeup of a Confident Woman. Listeners of the Speaking of Racism podcast will want to delve into Critical Race theory books—I’d suggest starting with How To Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal Fleming. And those who like the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast should check out Don’t Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis. 

—From Jenny Chisnell (Harry Belafonte 115th Street Library)