STACK with Jake and Ella
STACK with Jake and Ella

STACK with Jake and Ella

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Meet your next favourite books... 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. Get in touch with your dilemmas for Shelf Help - no question is too big. We are @stackpodcast on Instagram and TikTok

Recent Episodes

Weird Little Books: Zombies, Word Soup and Falling In Love With A Printer
DEC 9, 2025
Weird Little Books: Zombies, Word Soup and Falling In Love With A Printer

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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Christmas Gift Guide: Crowd-Pleasers, Broadchurch and Miriam Margolyes
NOV 25, 2025
Christmas Gift Guide: Crowd-Pleasers, Broadchurch and Miriam Margolyes

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.


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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28 MIN
For Girls and Gays: Caroline O’Donoghue, Sad Gay Lit and Life-Changing Non-Fiction
NOV 11, 2025
For Girls and Gays: Caroline O’Donoghue, Sad Gay Lit and Life-Changing Non-Fiction
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30 MIN