Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Boring Books for Bedtime is a weekly, ad-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.

The Book of the Ocean, by Ernest Ingersoll, Part 5 09/08/2025

The Ethics of Aristotle, Part 3 09/01/2025

The History of Bread, by John Ashton, Part 6 - Conclusion 08/25/2025

Old Country Inns of England, by Maskell and Gregory, Part 2 08/18/2025

The Book of the Hamburgs, by L. Frank Baum, Part 1 08/11/2025

The Story of a Boulder, by Archibald Geikie, Part 1 08/04/2025

The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909, by Robert Peary (Part 3) 07/28/2025

Pictures from Italy, by Charles Dickens, Part 3 07/21/2025

Faery Lands of the South Seas, by James Hall and Charles Nordhoff, Part 4 07/14/2025

The Railway Traveller's Handy Book, Part 3 07/07/2025

Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making, Part 3 06/30/2025

Astronomy for Young Folks, by Isabel Martin Lewis, Part 10 (Conclusion) 06/23/2025

Bicycling for Ladies, by Maria E. Ward, Part 4 06/16/2025

The Book of Household Management, by Mrs. Isabella Beeton, Part 11 - Fish 06/09/2025

A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 9 06/02/2025

All About Dogs, by Charles Henry Lane, Part 1 05/26/2025

Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres, Showing That the Earth is Hollow, Part 4 05/19/2025

William Shakespeare, by Victor Hugo, Part 1 05/12/2025

Mexican Archaeology, by Thomas A. Joyce, Part 1 05/05/2025

Experimental Researches in Electricity, by Michael Faraday, Part 1 04/28/2025

1890 Gardiner and Co. Seed Annual, Part 2, Flowers for the Garden 04/21/2025

The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 4 04/14/2025

The Handbook on Cheese Making, by George E. Newell, Part 3 (Conclusion) 04/07/2025

Sailing Alone Around the World, by Captain Joshua Slocum, Part 3 03/31/2025

Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott, Part 5 (Conclusion) 03/24/2025

The Story of Ancient Irish Civilization, by P.W. Joyce, Part 1 03/17/2025

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius - Nero, Part 1 03/10/2025

Our National Parks, by John Muir, Part 5 03/03/2025

Ten Acres Enough, by Edmund Morris, Part 4 02/24/2025

Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 7 02/17/2025