Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
397 - Farm Engines and How to Run Them, by James H. Stephenson, Part 8
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.
397 - Farm Engines and How to Run Them, by James H. Stephenson, Part 8
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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
397-
Farm Engines and How to Run Them, by James H. Stephenson, Part 8
Listened
Mon, 27 Apr 2026
396-
A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 10
Listened
Mon, 20 Apr 2026
395-
The Book of Household Management, by Isabella Beeton, Part 12 - Fish Recipes
Listened
Mon, 13 Apr 2026
394-
Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance of 1921, by C.K. Howard-Bury, Part 6
Listened
Mon, 06 Apr 2026
393-
The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith, Part 5
Listened
Mon, 30 Mar 2026
392-
Cottages; or, Hints on Economical Building, by Brunner & Gerhard (Conclusion)
Listened
Mon, 23 Mar 2026
391-
The Story of Ancient Irish Civilization, by P.W. Joyce, Part 2
Listened
Mon, 16 Mar 2026
390-
The North Pole, Its Discovery in 1909, by Robert Peary, Part 4
Listened
Mon, 09 Mar 2026
389-
Cassell's Book of Birds, Part 6 - Parrots Continued
Listened
Mon, 02 Mar 2026
388-
Our National Parks, by John Muir, Part 6
Listened
Mon, 23 Feb 2026
387-
The Voyage of the Bounty to the South Sea, by Lt. William Bligh, Part 3
Listened
Mon, 16 Feb 2026
386-
On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection, by Charles Darwin, Part 7
Listened
Mon, 09 Feb 2026
385-
The Ten Books on Architecture, by Vitruvius, Part 2
Listened
Mon, 02 Feb 2026
384-
The South American Tour, by Annie S. Peck, Part 2
Listened
Mon, 26 Jan 2026
383-
All About Dogs, by Charles Henry Lane, Part 2
Listened
Mon, 19 Jan 2026
382-
Hoyle's Games Modernized, by Hoyle, Hoffmann and Bergholt, Part 1
Listened
Mon, 12 Jan 2026
381-
Ten Acres Enough, by Edmund Morris, Part 5
Listened
Mon, 05 Jan 2026
380-
Winter Impressions from John Muir and Henry David Thoreau
Listened
Mon, 29 Dec 2025
379-
The 1942 Sears Roebuck and Co. Christmas Book, Part 2
Listened
Mon, 22 Dec 2025
378-
Wintering in the Riviera, by William J. Miller, Part 1
Listened
Mon, 15 Dec 2025
377-
An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus, Part 3
Listened
Mon, 08 Dec 2025
376-
Our Cats and All About Them, by Harrison Weir, Part 4
Listened
Mon, 01 Dec 2025
375-
Life on a Medieval Barony, by William Stearns Davis, Part 1
Listened
Mon, 24 Nov 2025
374-
Farm Engines and How To Run Them, by James H. Stephenson, Part 7
Listened
Mon, 17 Nov 2025
373-
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Part 4
Listened
Mon, 10 Nov 2025
372-
The Compleat Angler, by Isaak Walton, Part 1
Listened
Mon, 03 Nov 2025
371-
1921 Sears Roebuck and Co. Modern Homes Catalog (Part 2)
Listened
Mon, 27 Oct 2025
370-
Etiquette, by Emily Post, Part 8 - Servants
Listened
Mon, 20 Oct 2025
369-
Where the Forest Murmurs, by Fiona Macleod, Part 2
Listened
Mon, 13 Oct 2025
368-
The Evolution of Modern Orchestration, by Louis A. Coerne, Part 1
Listened
Mon, 06 Oct 2025
367-
The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell, Part 4
Listened
Mon, 29 Sep 2025
366-
Over Fen and Wold, by John James Hissey, Part 1
Listened
Mon, 22 Sep 2025
365-
On Molecular and Microscopic Science, by Mary Somerville, Part 3
Listened
Mon, 15 Sep 2025
364-
The Book of the Ocean, by Ernest Ingersoll, Part 5
Listened
Mon, 08 Sep 2025
363-
The Ethics of Aristotle, Part 3
Listened
Mon, 01 Sep 2025
362-
The History of Bread, by John Ashton, Part 6 - Conclusion
Listened
Mon, 25 Aug 2025
361-
Old Country Inns of England, by Maskell and Gregory, Part 2
Listened
Mon, 18 Aug 2025
360-
The Book of the Hamburgs, by L. Frank Baum, Part 1
Listened
Mon, 11 Aug 2025
359-
The Story of a Boulder, by Archibald Geikie, Part 1
Listened
Mon, 04 Aug 2025
358-
The North Pole - Its Discovery in 1909, by Robert Peary (Part 3)
Listened
Mon, 28 Jul 2025
357-
Pictures from Italy, by Charles Dickens, Part 3
Listened
Mon, 21 Jul 2025
356-
Faery Lands of the South Seas, by James Hall and Charles Nordhoff, Part 4
Listened
Mon, 14 Jul 2025
355-
The Railway Traveller's Handy Book, Part 3
Listened
Mon, 07 Jul 2025
354-
Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making, Part 3
Listened
Mon, 30 Jun 2025
353-
Astronomy for Young Folks, by Isabel Martin Lewis, Part 10 (Conclusion)
Listened
Mon, 23 Jun 2025
352-
Bicycling for Ladies, by Maria E. Ward, Part 4
Listened
Mon, 16 Jun 2025
351-
The Book of Household Management, by Mrs. Isabella Beeton, Part 11 - Fish
Listened
Mon, 09 Jun 2025
350-
A Short History of the World, by H.G. Wells, Part 9
Listened
Mon, 02 Jun 2025
349-
All About Dogs, by Charles Henry Lane, Part 1
Listened
Mon, 26 May 2025
348-
Symmes' Theory of Concentric Spheres, Showing That the Earth is Hollow, Part 4