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STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast sharing the books we love and helping people fall in love-and stay in love-with reading. In every episode, Ella and Jake will present a curated list of six brilliant books on a theme. We're creating mini-libraries on a theme, for whenever the inspiration takes you. 

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It’s freshers week for Jake and Ella as they share their favourite campus-set novels. Whether you’re talking Uni or College, consider these books your set texts for September - educational, fun and full of mistakes.

Plus, Ella has finally read Normal People and you can hear an exclusive extract from Booker-longlisted May We Feed the King, read by the author.



The books featured in this week’s STACK:

Black Bag by Luke Kennard

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Rayburn Affair by Laurie Petrou

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The House on Otley Road by Rosa Silverman

Normal People by Sally Rooney

 

Also mentioned:

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry - with exclusive reading provided by the author



Thank you so much to our episode sponsor Quercus Books. You can order a copy of Fellow Creatures by Emma Lowther here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/fellow-creatures/emma-lowther/9781529444056.



STACK with Jake and Ella is the books podcast helping you fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.



Don’t forget to follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube so that you never miss an episode, and please leave us a review wherever you’re listening. It’s the best way to support the show so that we can keep making it.



We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast



Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section. 



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.
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On Campus: Ella’s first Sally Rooney, Booker Prizes and an exclusive reading of May We Feed The King by Rebecca Perry

Why are we so obsessed with weddings in fiction? This week Jake and Ella discuss their favourite books about nuptials. From love triangles and in-laws to hen-dos and croquembouches, these six books are guaranteed to bring the drama.

Plus, Jake has spotted a Taylor Swift inspired theme in bookshops… 



The books featured in this week’s STACK:

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Ghost Wedding by David Park

Piglet by Lottie Hazell

Best Woman by Rose Dommu

People in Love by Claire Daverley

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

 

Also mentioned:

Talking at Night by Claire Daverley

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki



STACK with Jake and Ella is the books podcast helping you fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.

 

Don’t forget to follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube so that you never miss an episode, and please leave us a review wherever you’re listening. It’s the best way to support the show so that we can keep making it.



We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/⁠

TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast⁠

 

Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section. 

 

STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. 
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Wedding Dramas: Taylor Swift, Claire Daverley and Croquembouche Catastrophes

It’s payback time! Join Jake and Ella as they discuss their favourite books about revenge. Plus, Jake has a harrowing story about punctuation and Ella is seeking information on a Sheffield motorist. She just wants to talk.



The books featured in this week’s STACK:

Speech Team by Tim Murphy

Honey by Imani Thompson

We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

Better Than Revenge by Bea Fitzgerald

The Favourites by Layne Fargo

 

Also mentioned:

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry

Our extremely niche bonus stack on bee stings: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUGe5hfgvwS/ 

 

Thank you so much to our episode sponsor 3am Books. You can
order a copy of Fawn by C. N. Vair here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/fawn/c-n-vair/2928377389437 

 

STACK with Jake and Ella is the books podcast helping you fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.

 

Don’t forget to follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube so that you never miss an episode, and please leave us a review wherever you’re listening. It’s the best way to support the show so that we can keep making it.



We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast

 

Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section. 

 

STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. 
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Revenge Is Sweet: Frenemies, The Raven Scholar and Wuthering Heights on Ice

Surprise! We’ve squeezed in a super special bonus episode all about David Nicholls and his books about love.

Jake, a self-professed Nicholls head guides Ella through the options, and she picks her next read from his recommendations. Loved One Day, and wondering where else to go next? This is the episode for you. 



The books featured in this week’s STACK:

The Understudy by David Nicholls

Starter For Ten by David Nicholls

One Day by David Nicholls

Us by David Nicholls

Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls

You Are Here by David Nicholls



AD | Thank you to Hodder Books and their David Nicholls: Read For Love campaign for making this episode of STACK possible. 



STACK with Jake and Ella is the books podcast helping you fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.



Don’t forget to follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube so that you never miss an episode, and please leave us a review wherever you’re listening. It’s the best way to support the show so that we can keep making it.



We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/⁠

TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast



Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section. 



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. 

We record on location at Aspect Ratio Studio in Sheffield. 
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BONUS: David Nicholls: Love Stories, University Nostalgia and What To Read After One Day

Your favourite books podcast returns with an episode on Beach
Reads. Literally.

In this episode we discuss our favourite books set on the coast - perfect for your holiday reading. We also cover the cultural highlights from the break (The Odyssey! Off Campus! Heartstopper! Yesteryear!) and go absolutely mad responding to a Shelf Help dilemma about nature writing.

 

The books featured in this week’s STACK:

Beach Read by Emily Henry

The Summer Boy by Philippe Besson 

Sandwich by Catherine Newman 

Private Rites by Julia Armfield 

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han 

The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson

 

Also mentioned:

Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler 

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield 

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller 

The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 

The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel 

Who Owns England by Guy Shrubsole 

Albion by Anna Hope 

When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift 

Common Ground by Naomi Ishiguro

 

Layover by Emily Henry can be found here: https://www.emilyhenrybooks.com/bonus-content 

 

STACK with Jake and Ella is the books podcast helping you fall in
love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing
curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.

 

Don’t forget to follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on
YouTube so that you never miss an episode, and please leave us a review
wherever you’re listening. It’s the best way to support the show so that we can
keep making it.

 

We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast

 

Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s
episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section. 

 

STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. 

We record on location at Aspect Ratio Studio in Sheffield. 
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Literally Beach Reads: Off Campus, The Odyssey & STACK is Back!

We're back. Have you missed us? We missed you.



We're bigger, bookier and better than ever before. Now lightening up your hump days - series two lands in just two days time this Wednesday, with themes including Weddings, Revenge and Beach Reads. 



Get in touch now to tell us what you've enjoyed reading over the break, or your Shelf Help dilemmas. We've missed you.



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This Wednesday... STACK is BACK!

It’s the season one finale and it starts with a literal bang (sorry about the noise)! In this episode we look back on our highlights from the last twelve episodes and share our favourite books about friendship because we’re incredibly sentimental. 

Plus Ella pitches a soon-to-be-published book as Ghostbusters meets It’s A Sin and it’s the crossover you didn’t know you needed!

Don’t forget to subscribe to the pod so you don’t miss our triumphant return in July…



The books featured in this week’s STACK:

Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The Private Side of Friendship by Alexander McCall Smith

Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler



STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.

Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 



We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast

Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything!



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.
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Books on Friendship: Confetti Cannons, Mayflies, Gabrielle Zevin AND we’ll be back in July!

Do you ever feel the need to hide from the world in a book? We do! All the time! This episode showcases our favourite books to read in turbulent times - with a generous side of caveats.

Our shelf-help segment this week includes our top recommendations for a documentary-style novel - perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six! 



The books featured in this week’s STACK:

The Poetry Pharmacy by William Sieghart

We All Live Here by JoJo Moyes

Wintering by Katherine May

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer

The Mystery of Mercy Close by Marian Keyes

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

We also recommend The People We Meet on Vacation & The History of Sound. The poem Ella quotes is Today My Horoscope Read, by Warsan Shire.



STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.



Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 

We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast



Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything!



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.
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Books for Turbulent Times: Emily Henry, Motherland and When To Hibernate

In honour of World Book Day we’ve collected some of the most iconic reads of our childhood and hopefully yours too. Jake tries to recommend Lord of the Flies to an eleven-year-old and Ella learns that Lemony Snicket is actually a man called Daniel. 



The books featured in this week’s STACK:

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

Northern Lights by Phillip Pulman

The Poltergoose by Michael Laurence

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman



Jake recommends Daniel Handler’s memoir: And Then? And Then? What Else? 

Both are obsessed with Lily Allen’s album: West End Girl. 



STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.



Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 

We are @stackpodcast on socials.

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TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast

Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything!



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.
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Noughties Nostalgia: Lily Allen, Malorie Blackman and Kissin’ Kate Barlow

We tried to put together an episode on Classics but Jake only likes the popular ones and Ella doesn't like any of them... Instead, presenting our own take on the late, the great, and the classics we hate. 

Plus, Ella has never read a Sally Rooney book.



The books featured in this week's STACK:

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

In Love With Love by Ella Risbridger

Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

James by Percival Everett

Catherine by Essie Fox



Ella recommended this episode of the Shameless podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/50OXBpqrmONxw17gI0VlsR?si=svPd51krQZqc3E1T0jBnvQ 

Jake gave a shout out to the Boys Book Club: https://www.instagram.com/boys.book.club?igsh=MXRscXM2a2h0NjN1eQ== 



STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.



Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 

We are @stackpodcast on socials.

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TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast



Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything!



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.
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Classics with a Twist: Sally Rooney, Ella Risbridger and the 900 Versions of Pride & Prejudice

Join us for an extra special bonus episode of STACK, filmed the day after Jake and Ella watched Wuthering Heights in the greatest cinema in the world.

It’s one of Jake’s favourite books, and it’s the talk of the internet, but was it any good? 



STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.



Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 

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Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything!



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.


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BONUS: Wuthering Heights - What We Thought

Love stories are some of our favourite stories, so this Valentines week, join us for six books to put on your stack - books of toxic first loves, the line between friendship and romance, and stories about loving yourself. It’s all in this episode, alongside Jake’s love of reformer pilates, and Ella’s love of Marian Keyes.

Plus: what to do if you buy someone a book, and they never tell you they’ve read it. Should you chase? 



The books featured in this week’s STACK:

Chosen Family - Madeleine Grey

Talking at Night - Clare Daverley

Isaac - Curtis Garner

Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld

Wild Things - Laura Kay

Rachel’s Holiday - Marian Keyes



Also featured:

Orange - Curtis Garner

Tell Me Everything - Laura Kay

The Split - Laura Kay



Marian Keyes’ writing videos in the vlog section here: https://www.mariankeyes.com/videos/ 



STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.



Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 

We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast



Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything!



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke


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Love Stacktually: The Marian Keyes Of It All, Relationship Podcasts and Romantic Comedy

What puts you off a book and what pulls you towards one? This episode is all about the books we thought we wouldn’t like - whether the cover, the topic, or something else - but we’re happy to tell you these are six books we actually thought were great. We deep dive into our own reading tastes and prejudices and create the Venn Diagram of Jake and Ella’s reading taste. 

Warning: there are some hot, and bad, takes in this episode!



The books featured in this week’s STACK:

8.20 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

12.40 Ducks, Newburyport - Lucy Ellmann

15.22 Yellowface - R. F. Kuang

19.32 The Bee Sting - Paul Murray

22.00 In Memoriam - Alice Winn

27.20 A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas



Also featured:

One Day - David Nicholls

Heated Rivalry - Rachel Reid

It Lasts Forever and then It’s Over - Anne de Marcken

Second Best - David Foenkinos

Blood Over Bright Haven - M.L. Wang

A Little Life - Hanya Yanigahara



STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.

Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 



We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast



Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything!



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke
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Books We Thought We’d Hate: ACOTAR, Historical Fiction and Prize-Winners

***This episode contains discussion around death and bereavement - we advise listening with caution or skipping this episode if those topics wouldn’t be right for you right now***
It’s a New Year and our first STACK of the year is here. We’re a firm believer in the power of books to change lives, but which ones specifically? We’re also virtual this episode, hot off the back of seeing Hamnet and desperate to talk about it, and we’re sharing life hacks including how to afford a New Year book haul. Plus: bao buns, surprising stats and discussing whether Stephen Sondheim is a household name.
Plus - we run through the best upcoming 2026 books to add to your TBR. 

The books featured in this week’s STACK:
11.57 Solve For Happy - Mo Gawdat
14.50 Open Up - Alex Holder
18.28 East - Meera Sodha
21.06 A Heart That Works - Rob Delaney
23.56 Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
28.49 How Sondheim Can Change Your Life - Richard Schoch

Also featured:
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
Land - Maggie O’Farrell
Hooked - Asako Yusuki
What Am I, A Deer? - Polly Barton
Vigil - George Saunders
The Things We Never Say - Elizabeth Strout
People In Love - Claire Daverley

STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.
Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 

We are @stackpodcast on socials.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast

Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section - you can literally ask us anything 

STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.
It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.
Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.


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Life-Changing Books and Hamnet on Film: £1 Book Hauls, Awkward Money Chats and Naming Your Brain

We’ve got our Santa hats on! This episode’s STACK is all cosy vibes for Christmas, New Year and the period in between, whatever that’s called. Jake and Ella create a stack containing crosswords, colours and predicting your own murder. Mysteries that are light on jeopardy, and won’t keep you up at night. And a listener question for the Shelf Help section takes an unexpected turn…

The books featured in this week’s STACK:
05.46 The Fellowship of Puzzle Makers - Samuel Burr
07.26 How To Solve Your Own Murder - Kristen Perrin
10.20 Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
12.30 All The Colours of the Dark - Chris Whitaker
15.30 The Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
18.35 The Hogfather - Terry Pratchett

Also featured:
Buckeye - Patrick Ryan
Wolf Hall Trilogy - Hilary Mantel
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde

STACK is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.

Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 

We are @stackpodcast on socials.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast

Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section. 

STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.
It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.
Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. 


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Cosy Mysteries for Knives Out Fans: Fancying Alex Rider, Books Within Books and Loving Terry Pratchett

Ella and Jake pick six tiny books that pack a weird punch, and have fun debating whether they could handle the zombie apocalypse, whether they like to know what’s going on in a book, and a man called Bigolas Dickolas.

The books featured in this week’s STACK:
3.56 Hard Copy - Fien Veldman
6.31 This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone 
11.10 Heatwave - Victor Jestin
14.23 It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over - Anna de Marcken
19.07 Second Best - David Foenkinos
21.50 Treacle Walker - Alan Garner

Also featured:
Impossible Creatures - Katherine Rundell
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry
George Orwell’s 1984: An Audible Original adaptation

STACK is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.

Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 

We are @stackpodcast on socials.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast

Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section. 

STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.
It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.
Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. 


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Weird Little Books: Zombies, Word Soup and Falling In Love With A Printer

Ready for your Christmas shopping? This week’s Stack covers six crowd-pleasing books to fill anybody’s stocking. Ella and Jake discuss their own Christmas lists, getting your colours done and what on earth to buy for your dad. 

The books featured in this week’s Stack:
12.14 The Poetry Pharmacy
14.17 My Friends - Fredrik Backman
16.14 Is A River Alive? - Robert Macfarlane
18.12 Death At The White Hart - Chris Chibnall
19.40 The Little Book Of Miriam - Miriam Margoyles
22.48 The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King - Harry Trevaldwyn

Also featured:
The Wedding People - Alison Espach
Notes On Your Sudden Disappearance - Alison Espach
The Christmas Tree That Loved To Dance - Miranda Hart
All The Best For The Future - Greg James
Buckeye - Patrick Ryan 
Alchemised - SenLinYu
The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson
The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden

The Stack is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.

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Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. 

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Christmas Gift Guide: Crowd-Pleasers, Broadchurch and Miriam Margolyes

This week’s STACK is all about the girls and the gays. Jake and Ella cover books that speak to their identities, others that help them to understand other perspectives and Ella reads The Lamb after Jake’s review last week.

The books featured in this week’s STACK:
04.45 Amateur - Thomas Page McBee
09.05 The Rachel Incident - Caroline O’Donoghue
12.23 Period Power - Maisie Hill
16.05 I Leave It Up To You - Jinwoo Chong
17.50  A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske
21.05 A Home At The End of the World - Michael Cunningham 

Also featured:
The Lamb - Lucy Rose
Amazing Grace Adams - Fran Littlewood
Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead
The Binding - Bridget Collins

The Stack is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.

Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. 

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Please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section. 

STACK is an independent podcast production.
It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.
Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke. 

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For Girls and Gays: Caroline O’Donoghue, Sad Gay Lit and Life-Changing Non-Fiction

Welcome to the first episode of STACK, a new fortnightly books podcast from Jake, a writer and producer, and Ella, who works in publishing.
Every week, they’ll curate a list of six brilliant books on a theme, cutting through the noise and choice of the book world to recommend the ones that are really worth your time.
This week, they’re chatting haunted houses and ghost sightings, convincing each other to give children’s books a try, read a book after having seen the film, and to give oozing haunted houses a try. 
The books featured in this week’s STACK:
Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo
Aftertaste - Daria Lavelle 
The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co Book 1) - Jonathan Stroud
Strangers - Taichi Yamada
Mexican Gothic -  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Lamb - Lucy Rose
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Everybody Scream: Haunted Books, Ghost Stories and Book Binges

Welcome to STACK with Jake and Ella - a books podcast cutting through the noise to help you fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. We're here to introduce the books that are worth your time with six brilliant books per episode, on a bespoke theme. STACK starts Tuesday 28th October, new episodes every fortnight. 

The Stack is hosted by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.
This episode was recorded on location in Sheffield. 
We are @stackpodcast on Instagram and TikTok.

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