Health audiobooks cover everything from understanding your nervous system to rethinking how you sleep, eat, and move, and they work surprisingly well in audio because listening while walking or cooking feels almost intentional. There’s something fitting about absorbing information about your body while actually using it.

If you lean toward science-backed deep dives, Matthew Walker’s “Why we sleep” from 2017 is a good starting point. Listeners who want something more personal and habit-focused tend to gravitate toward the practical end of the shelf.