Podcast

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Author: Sharon Handy
Feed episode count: 406
Official site: https://www.boringbookspod.com/
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Summary

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.

Episodes

Jul 13, 2026 · not_requested

The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russell (Part 5)

Duration seconds: 2655
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Jul 6, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3226
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Jun 29, 2026 · not_requested

The Railway Traveller's Handy Book, Part 4

Duration seconds: 3007
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Jun 22, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 2946
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Jun 15, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3108
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Jun 8, 2026 · not_requested

Pictures from Italy, by Charles Dickens, Part 4

Duration seconds: 3160
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Jun 1, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3097
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May 25, 2026 · not_requested

1897 Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog - Sewing Machines

Duration seconds: 3505
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May 18, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3198
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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 2735
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May 4, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3793
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Apr 27, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3163
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Apr 20, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3299
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Apr 13, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3357
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Apr 6, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3045
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Mar 30, 2026 · not_requested

The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 5

Duration seconds: 3369
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Mar 23, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 2731
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Mar 16, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3044
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Mar 9, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3197
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Mar 2, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3023
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Feb 23, 2026 · not_requested

Our National Parks, by John Muir, Part 6

Duration seconds: 2821
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Feb 16, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3026
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Feb 9, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 2856
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Feb 2, 2026 · not_requested

The Ten Books on Architecture, by Vitruvius, Part 2

Duration seconds: 2571
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Jan 26, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3291
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Jan 19, 2026 · not_requested

All About Dogs, by Charles Henry Lane, Part 2

Duration seconds: 3024
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Jan 12, 2026 · not_requested

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

Duration seconds: 3206
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Jan 5, 2026 · not_requested

Ten Acres Enough, by Edmund Morris, Part 5

Duration seconds: 2705
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