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 Margolyes
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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Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.
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
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 @thestackpodcast on socials.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestackpodcast/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thestackpodcast
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.
The Stack is an independent podcast production.
It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.
Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.
Welcome to the first episode of The 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
Please comment, subscribe and share, and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review.
We are @thestackpodcast on socials - 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.
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 @thestackpodcast on Instagram and TikTok.