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Work and Play with Nancy Ray

298 - My Favorite Books from 2025

Work and Play with Nancy Ray

Nancy Ray

Entrepreneurship, Business, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9683 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm sharing all about my favorite books from 2025.

Resources from this episode:

Every Moment Holy 

Rhythms Reset 

Nancy Ray Book Club 

Work & Play Episode 266 : 2025 Book List 

On Moonberry Lake by Holly Varni 

The Blooming of Delphinium by Holly Varni 

Smart Brevity by Jim VandeHei 

The Opt-Out Family by Erin Loechner

The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins

40 Days of Decrease by Alicia Britt Chole

Anonymous by Alicia Britt Chole

Underestimated by Mary Marantz

Work & Play Episode 269 : Underestimated with Mary Marantz

Born to Eat by Leslie Schilling 

Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin

The If I Run Series by Terri Blackstock

Restoration Series by Terri Blackstock

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen by Kate Strickler

Work & Play Episode 283 : I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen with Kate Strickler 

Love Your Life by Rachel Awtrey

Work & Play Episode 282 : Love Your Life with Rachel Awtrey 

My Name is Ashler Lev by Chaim Potok 

When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

A Cross-Country Christmas

Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

Polyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

The Mystwick School of Musicraft by Jessica Khoury

The Timeless Series Book 1 by Gabrielle Meyer

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0:00.0

Today I'm sharing all about my favorite books from 2025.

0:09.4

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 298.

0:14.2

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

0:18.8

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place. This is a podcast all about learning to work and play. Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

0:21.8

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well, which leads to a healthy soul and a

0:27.1

fulfilling life. Listen in.

0:37.1

Okay, friend, it is December. There are only three more episodes left in the year, which is crazy.

0:44.9

Today's episode, all about my favorite books from the year.

0:48.3

Next week, I am going to read over you some prayers for Christmas.

0:53.0

And I wanted to kind of give you a heads up in what's

0:54.6

coming because I don't want you to miss it. And I know it's going to be the week of Christmas that

1:00.4

it releases. And I just feel like it's going to be special. I have chosen three prayers from my

1:06.9

favorite prayer book called Every Moment Holy. And I hope it just encourages you. So

1:12.7

to come back in next week, it will literally be, I think, the 23rd. Gosh, that's crazy.

1:18.7

And then after that, I will be releasing my 300th episode. I think the day before my birthday,

1:26.9

yes, on the 30th. My birthday's the 31st. And then I'll be taking

1:31.8

the month off in January. So in case you missed it, I have released my rhythms reset into the

1:40.1

world, which is a very simple private podcast that's five episodes long. It's basically an

1:47.3

invitation for you to slow down and start thinking about 2026 and the assignment that the

1:54.4

Lord has for you in like a smaller way. Like you're looking at the first quarter of the year,

1:59.5

the first 12 weeks of the year. You're looking

2:01.5

at your weekly rhythms and your daily rhythms. Yeah, just learning to hear God's voice for all of those

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