Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Boring Books for Bedtime is a weekly 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 blend 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.

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

On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin, Part 6 02/10/2025

How To See The British Museum in Four Visits, Part 3 02/03/2025

Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1921, by Lt. Col. CK Howard-Bury, Part 5 01/27/2025

Robert's Rules of Order, by Major Henry Robert, Part 1 01/20/2025

Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to Antiquities in Egypt, by Gaston Maspero (Part 7) 01/13/2025

Our Cats and All About Them, by Harrison Weir (Part 3) 01/06/2025

Relaxation Rewind! Art in Needlework: Embroidery, by Lewis Day and Mary Buckle, Part 1 12/30/2024

The 1942 Sears Roebuck and Co. Christmas Book, Part 1 12/23/2024

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 3 12/16/2024

Frye's Practical Candy Maker, by G.V. Frye - Part 3, The Conclusion 12/09/2024

Woodworking for Beginners, by Charles G. Wheeler, Part 3 12/02/2024

Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply, by Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, Part 2 11/25/2024