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Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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…

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

The Hive and the Honey-Bee, by Rev. L.L. Langstroth, Part 4

Robert's Rules of Order, by Major Henry M. Robert, Part 2

Life on a Medieval Barony, by William Stearns Davis, Part 2

The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russell, Part 5

Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making, Part 4

The Railway Traveller's Handy Book, Part 4

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 5

Faery Lands of the South Seas, by James Hall and Charles Nordhoff, Part 5

Pictures from Italy, by Charles Dickens, Part 4

Sailing Alone Around the World, by Captain Joshua Slocum, Part 4

1897 Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog - Sewing Machines

Ecclesiastical History of England, by the Venerable Bede, Part 3

The Story of a Boulder, by Archibald Geikie, Part 2

Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres, Showing That the Earth Is Hollow, Part 5 (Conclusion)

Farm Engines and How to Run Them, by James H. Stephenson, Part 8

A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 10

The Book of Household Management, by Isabella Beeton, Part 12 - Fish Recipes

Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance of 1921, by C.K. Howard-Bury, Part 6

The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 5

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

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

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

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

Our National Parks, by John Muir, Part 6

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

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

The Ten Books on Architecture, by Vitruvius, Part 2

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

All About Dogs, by Charles Henry Lane, Part 2

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

Ten Acres Enough, by Edmund Morris, Part 5

Winter Impressions from John Muir and Henry David Thoreau

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

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

An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus, Part 3

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

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

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

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

The Compleat Angler, by Isaak Walton, Part 1

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

Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 8 - Servants

Where the Forest Murmurs, by Fiona Macleod, Part 2

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

The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell, Part 4

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

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

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

The Ethics of Aristotle, Part 3

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

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

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

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

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

Pictures from Italy, by Charles Dickens, Part 3

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

The Railway Traveller's Handy Book, Part 3

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

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

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

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

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

All About Dogs, by Charles Henry Lane, Part 1

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

William Shakespeare, by Victor Hugo, Part 1

Mexican Archaeology, by Thomas A. Joyce, Part 1

Experimental Researches in Electricity, by Michael Faraday, Part 1

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

The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 4

The Handbook on Cheese Making, by George E. Newell, Part 3 (Conclusion)

Sailing Alone Around the World, by Captain Joshua Slocum, Part 3

Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott, Part 5 (Conclusion)

The Story of Ancient Irish Civilization, by P.W. Joyce, Part 1

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius - Nero, Part 1

Our National Parks, by John Muir, Part 5

Ten Acres Enough, by Edmund Morris, Part 4

Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 7

On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, Part 6

How To See The British Museum in Four Visits, Part 3