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Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Sharon Handy
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
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  • Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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

    22/06/2026 | 49 mins.
    Let's continue our pleasant plod to sleep with more from Mr. Stevenson and Modestine as they make their way through the mountains of France. This time, quite a lot of philosophizing about the lasting nature of belief, getting along, sleeping outdoors, and the poetry of stars. The donkey says nothing.
     
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    Read "Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes" by Robert Louis Stevens at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/535
     
    Music: "earth 2 earth," by PC III, licensed under CC BY
     
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  • Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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

    15/06/2026 | 51 mins.
    Let's continue our sail to sleep through a month of travel readings with more from this wonderful wander through the South Seas. This time, another interesting fellow passenger, notes on linguistics, a scary reef crossing, and…the island version of a kegger? Cheers!
     
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    Music: "Ocean Tapping," by PC III, licensed under CC BY
     
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  • Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

    Pictures from Italy, by Charles Dickens, Part 4

    08/06/2026 | 52 mins.
    Let's continue our sojourn to sleep through a month of travel readings with more from Charles Dickens and his tour through Italy. This time, we conclude our visit to Genoa, have a strange experience with puppets, an even stranger visit to Marseilles, and consider that things are often more beautiful seen from a distance. Truth indeed.
     
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    Read "Pictures from Italy" by Charles Dickens at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/650
     
    Music: "Peace," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
     
    If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com.
  • Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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

    01/06/2026 | 51 mins.
    Let's sail to sleep with the first read of our new theme month, Travels! This time, we return to an epic journey around the world in a handmade boat, and wrestle with Cape Horn, seasickness, and williwaws. Also, the benefits of carpet tacks and the kindness of strangers. Useful!
     
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    Music: "Ocean Tapping," by PC III, licensed under CC BY
     
    If you'd like to suggest a copyright-free reading for soft-spoken relaxation to help you overcome insomnia, anxiety and other sleep issues, connect on our website, https://www.boringbookspod.com.
  • Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

    1897 Sears Roebuck and Co. Catalog - Sewing Machines

    25/05/2026 | 58 mins.
    Let's celebrate our 400th (!!!) episode with more from one of your sleepiest favorites from 1897. This time, thanks to a Patreon poll, we're shopping for that most useful of newfangled devices, the sewing machine. Singer has nothing on Sears, according to Sears, especially with a three percent discount for cash. It's a bargain of boredom!
     
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    Music: "Heaven Be Here," by PC III, licensed under CC BY
     
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About Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
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.
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