Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Sharon Handy

Topics: Mental Health

No. 85 in Health & Fitness▲15

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.

Latest episodeThe Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, by L.W. de Laurence, Part 1October 26, 2026 · 59 min

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Latest episodes

1. The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, by L.W. de Laurence, Part 1October 26, 2026 · 59 min
2. The Practice and Science of Drawing, by Harold Speed, Part 2October 19, 2026 · 46 min
3. The Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged, by Nicholas Culpeper, Part 2October 12, 2026 · 50 min
4. Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 9October 5, 2026 · 55 min
5. Woodworking for Beginners, by Charles G. Wheeler, Part 4September 28, 2026 · 58 min
6. Old Country Inns of England, by Henry Maskell and Edward Gregory, Part 3September 21, 2026 · 56 min
7. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to Antiquities, by Gaston Maspero, Part 8September 14, 2026 · 55 min
8. Studying Art Abroad and How to Do It Cheaply, by Abigail May Alcott Niereker, Part 3 (CONCLUSION)September 7, 2026 · 53 min
9. The Republic of Plato with Introduction and Analysis, by Benjamin Jowett (Part 4)August 31, 2026 · 56 min
10. The Travels of Marco Polo, Part 3August 24, 2026 · 55 min

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