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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.
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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.
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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.
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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==
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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?
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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/
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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.
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***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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
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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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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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