STACK with Jake and Ella

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. 

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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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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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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.

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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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. 

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 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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