This Wednesday... STACK is BACK!

This week, readers and athletes Jake and Ella are testing your spice tolerance and asking the big questions: is baseball a sexy sport? What is a Why Choose romance? And what exactly is so difficult about driving a fast car around a track? WARNING: This episode is very silly and Ella repeatedly gets the title of Pucking Around wrong. The books featured in this week’s STACK: See You At The Finish Line by Zac Hammett One on One by Jamie Harrow The Open Era by Edward Schmit Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey Pole Position Rebecca J. Caffery Pucking Around by Emily Rath 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s STACK with Jake and… Lucy! In this special Halloween episode, Jake is joined by Lucy Rose, bestselling author of The Lamb, to discuss her writing and a stack of her very own.  What draws Lucy to the horror genre? What are her favourite books about madness? And was there ever a world in which she ended her own book differently, saving Ella an immense amount of trauma? The books featured in this week’s STACK: The Leveret by Anna Goldreich This Immaculate Body by Emma Van Straaten Milk Bread Teeth by Amy Twigg We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Earthlings by Sayaka Murata Also mentioned: The Lamb by Lucy Rose: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-lamb/lucy-rose/9781399619752  The Lottery by Shirley Jackson: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery  The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ella and Jake introduce STACK’s fairytale-themed episode, full of classic tales, retellings and modern fables, starting with a discussion of the Booker Prize shortlist and a particularly annoying clip of Mary Beard criticising the phrase ‘a love of reading’. There’s a Shelf Help section on learning more about people’s jobs and they discuss the big publishing event of next week - a sequel to The Time Traveller’s Wife! The books featured in this week’s STACK: Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine The Bear & The Nightingale - Katherine Arden Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter Then We Came To The End - Joshua Ferris  Ghost Month - Simon Wroe   Also mentioned: The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Life Out of Order - Audrey Niffenegger The Two Roberts - Damian Barr Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid  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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jake and Ella are reading outside of their type, looking at the true crime genre: the morals, the scandal and the real-life drama of it all. They - allegedly - cover the Kennedys, recent high-profile non-fiction and how to write about a murderer properly. It’s still a fun episode, they promise–just wait until Ella’s anecdote.  And Jake’s okay after what he talks about in the intro, we promise.  The books featured in this week’s STACK: London Falling - Patrick Radden Keefe Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll Plain Bad Heroines - Emily M. Danforth A Hymn to Life - Gisèle Pelicot Notes On An Execution - Danya Kukafka  Ask Not - Maureen Callahan   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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. There's lots of exciting things to come. Think bonus episodes, think author interviews, think STACK. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices