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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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Sports Smut: Crew Girl, Challengers Made Tennis Sexy and What To Read After Heated Rivalry
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
21 Oct 2026
Happy Halloween! Lucy Rose on Body Horror, Madness and East of Eden
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
7 Oct 2026
Once Upon A Podcast: Time Traveller’s Wife, Anne Hathaway and Taylor Jenkins Reid
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
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