Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

by Sharon Handy

Boring Books for Bedtime is a weekly, ad-free, AI-free sleep podcast in which we calmly, quietly read something rather boring to silence the brain chatter keeping you awake. Think Aristotle, Thoreau, and whoever wrote the 1897 Sears Catalog—mostly nonfiction, mostly old, a perfect balance of vaguely-but-not-too interesting.
If you're on Team Sleepless, lie back, take a deep breath, and let us read you to rest.

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1

The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 5

56:09 Mar 30, 2026

2

Cottages; or, Hints on Economical Building, by Brunner & Gerhard (Conclusion)

45:31 Mar 23, 2026

3

The Story of Ancient Irish Civilization, by P.W. Joyce, Part 2

50:44 Mar 16, 2026

4

The North Pole, Its Discovery in 1909, by Robert Peary, Part 4

53:17 Mar 9, 2026

5

Cassell's Book of Birds, Part 6 - Parrots Continued

50:23 Mar 2, 2026

6

Our National Parks, by John Muir, Part 6

47:01 Feb 23, 2026

7

The Voyage of the Bounty to the South Sea, by Lt. William Bligh, Part 3

50:26 Feb 16, 2026

8

On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, by Charles Darwin, Part 7

47:36 Feb 9, 2026

9

The Ten Books on Architecture, by Vitruvius, Part 2

42:51 Feb 2, 2026

10

The South American Tour, by Annie S. Peck, Part 2

54:51 Jan 26, 2026

11

All About Dogs, by Charles Henry Lane, Part 2

50:24 Jan 19, 2026

12

Hoyle's Games Modernized, by Hoyle, Hoffmann and Bergholt, Part 1

53:26 Jan 12, 2026

13

Ten Acres Enough, by Edmund Morris, Part 5

45:05 Jan 5, 2026

14

Winter Impressions from John Muir and Henry David Thoreau

52:51 Dec 29, 2025

15

The 1942 Sears Roebuck and Co. Christmas Book, Part 2

1:00:26 Dec 22, 2025

16

Wintering in the Riviera, by William J. Miller, Part 1

56:59 Dec 15, 2025

17

An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus, Part 3

50:42 Dec 8, 2025

18

Our Cats and All About Them, by Harrison Weir, Part 4

53:33 Dec 1, 2025

19

Life on a Medieval Barony, by William Stearns Davis, Part 1

44:41 Nov 24, 2025

20

Farm Engines and How To Run Them, by James H. Stephenson, Part 7

48:05 Nov 17, 2025

21

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 4

58:31 Nov 10, 2025

22

The Compleat Angler, by Isaak Walton, Part 1

57:12 Nov 3, 2025

23

1921 Sears Roebuck and Co. Modern Homes Catalog (Part 2)

57:42 Oct 27, 2025

24

Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 8 - Servants

55:30 Oct 20, 2025

25

Where the Forest Murmurs, by Fiona Macleod, Part 2

44:38 Oct 13, 2025

26

The Evolution of Modern Orchestration, by Louis A. Coerne, Part 1

53:39 Oct 6, 2025

27

The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell, Part 4

51:06 Sep 29, 2025

28

Over Fen and Wold, by John James Hissey, Part 1

53:21 Sep 22, 2025

29

On Molecular and Microscopic Science, by Mary Somerville, Part 3

50:31 Sep 15, 2025

30

The Book of the Ocean, by Ernest Ingersoll, Part 5

54:30 Sep 8, 2025

31

The Ethics of Aristotle, Part 3

51:04 Sep 1, 2025

32

The History of Bread, by John Ashton, Part 6 - Conclusion

1:14:01 Aug 25, 2025

33

Old Country Inns of England, by Maskell and Gregory, Part 2

52:14 Aug 18, 2025

34

The Book of the Hamburgs, by L. Frank Baum, Part 1

48:37 Aug 11, 2025

35

The Story of a Boulder, by Archibald Geikie, Part 1

52:37 Aug 4, 2025

36

The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909, by Robert Peary (Part 3)

57:12 Jul 28, 2025

37

Pictures from Italy, by Charles Dickens, Part 3

51:38 Jul 21, 2025

38

Faery Lands of the South Seas, by James Hall and Charles Nordhoff, Part 4

55:51 Jul 14, 2025

39

The Railway Traveller's Handy Book, Part 3

48:27 Jul 7, 2025

40

Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making, Part 3

51:18 Jun 30, 2025

41

Astronomy for Young Folks, by Isabel Martin Lewis, Part 10 (Conclusion)

1:03:47 Jun 23, 2025

42

Bicycling for Ladies, by Maria E. Ward, Part 4

52:48 Jun 16, 2025

43

The Book of Household Management, by Mrs. Isabella Beeton, Part 11 - Fish

58:36 Jun 9, 2025

44

A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 9

50:25 Jun 2, 2025

45

All About Dogs, by Charles Henry Lane, Part 1

53:31 May 26, 2025

46

Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres, Showing That the Earth is Hollow, Part 4

42:38 May 19, 2025

47

William Shakespeare, by Victor Hugo, Part 1

54:40 May 12, 2025

48

Mexican Archaeology, by Thomas A. Joyce, Part 1

56:47 May 5, 2025

49

Experimental Researches in Electricity, by Michael Faraday, Part 1

52:04 Apr 28, 2025

50

1890 Gardiner and Co. Seed Annual, Part 2, Flowers for the Garden

51:11 Apr 21, 2025

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