From self-help to eating yourself healthy: 9 Audible titles to add to your must-listen list
Forget naff lists and preachy podcasts, here’s how to elevate your New Year’s listening.
It’s January. But just like the shiny foil wrapper of a Christmas chocolate you inexplicably find falling out of every outfit, bag, and cupboard in the days following the 25 December, there’s light to be found in the dark.
You don’t need to spend hundreds on new workout gear, deprive yourself of all joy in the name of ‘health’ or suddenly find your purpose in life just because the calendar has turned over. The perk of having a good audiobook or podcast to get stuck into in January is whether you choose to embrace hibernation, something new, or the bit in between, you can take it with you.
Popping them all in one place, Audible is full of must-listens that are perfect to dive into and challenge the way you think about everything from self-help to eating more mindfully.
We’ve put together nine of them to get you started…
1. Reset Your Health with Jamie Oliver
If you’re a fan of the ZOE science and nutrition podcast, Jamie Oliver’s first foray into the audio format will be right up your street. The chef and public health advocate talks to guests ranging from dieticians to scientists across six episodes to deep dive into what small things we can do today to help our health in future. Expect to learn about everything from how to eat yourself to a better night’s sleep to why genetics might be at play when it comes to the foods you find hard to resist.
2. Master your confidence with Maya Raichoora
One of the UK’s leading mental fitness and visualisation experts Maya Raichoora has a decade of experience mastering the technique of visualisation – the subject of which informed her bestselling 2025 title Visualise. Her next title Master Your Confidence has been designed to help listeners build self-confidence through guided visualisation. In each episode, Maya helps retrain the mind so listeners can feel more confident in every area of their lives.
3. Messy Love with Jay Shetty
Taking us behind the curtain into coaching sessions with three couples, Jay Shetty’s new project aims to reshape ideas around the idealisation of love as a perfect, neat thing. The intimate conversations touch on “resentment, broken trust, and generational patterns”, with both Shetty and the couples having to get comfortable with the unexpected as different topics emerge through the unscripted conversations. Messy Love has the secondary goal of leaving listeners with tools to become more compassionate communicators, break cycles of blame, create emotional safety and appreciate the everyday.
4. Click with Francesc Miralles
In Click, world-renowned expert on new trends and co-author of Ikigai Francesc Miralles discusses the moments in life where we feel something ‘click’ inside of us – and ultimately, how to harness the power of these moments. In this detailed study, Miralles explores how the ‘click’ can help us make radical changes to our thinking and our lifestyles. Inspiring stuff.
5. Strong Female Character with Fern Brady
Looking back at her life through the lens of her late autism diagnosis, Scottish comedian Fern Brady’s memoir also acts as an affirmation to other neurodivergent women who have been misdiagnosed - or plain missed - because of their gender. Acerbic, hilarious and heartfelt, it deconstructs how things like “having loads of boyfriends and being good at eye contact” can shape the way you’re viewed or swept under the rug as an autistic woman.
6. Come As You Are with Emily Nagoski
In her bestselling book, Emily Nagoski explodes the dated idea of female sexuality being a mysterious and difficult nut to crack. The sex educator breaks apart common myths that have contributed towards women having unsatisfying sex for years, arguing that every one of us has our own unique sexuality and response mechanisms. Learn about how the likes of stress, mood, trust, and body image all factor into your sexuality, and how the key to being sexually fulfilled is by being yourself.
7. Decolonising My Body A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty with Afua Hirsch
Journalist Afua Hirsch got her first ever tattoo after her 40th birthday, which triggered a year-long exploration into colonial ideas of what is beautiful, from body modification to ageing. Picking beneath the surface of the patriarchy and colonialism, she brings scholarship, anecdotes and interviews together to look at how body image, spirituality and power all intertwine. She explores how to sever ties with harmful mainstream beauty standards and reconnect with cultural touchstones.
8. My Mess Is a Bit of a Life with Georgia Pritchett
Comedy writer Georgia Pritchett, whose credits include Succession, Miranda and The Thick of It, used to worry about the monsters under her bed being comfy enough and apologised while giving birth for interrupting the doctor’s conversation with her girlfriend. That’s the kind of flavour you’ll get throughout her hilarious memoir on living with anxiety, which beautifully normalises how we’re all muddling through and doing our best with what we’re given.
9. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
If you fancy keeping the likes of Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and Alicia Keys as company, you might want to consider giving The Artist’s Way a listen. The creativity manual, first published in 1992 has sold over 4 million copies worldwide and inspired many musicians, writers and actors (like the aforementioned trio) in the process. Listen over 12 chapters as Julia Cameron teaches you how to unlock your creativity to find deeper connection through weekly challenges and exercises.
Curate your own must-listen list this January with wellness titles from Audible.
