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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

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

    2/16/2026 | 50 mins.
    Let's sail to sleep with more from this voyage of HMS Bounty, which continues to be somewhat less exciting than promised. This time, we plant trees in Van Diemen's Land, see some rocks, and find out that jellyfish were called blubbers, which is adorable. Then Otaheite/Tahiti ahoy, at long last! What could go wrong?
     
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    Music: "Watching Whales on the Moon," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

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  • Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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

    2/09/2026 | 47 mins.
    Let's relax with more from this foundational classic, just in time for Darwin Day. This time, how one species begets more and more variety over thousands of generations, the role of extinction, and why "the tree of life" is a lovely symbol indeed. It's science!
     
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    Music: "Dream Colours," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com
     
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  • Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

    The Ten Books on Architecture, by Vitruvius, Part 2

    2/02/2026 | 42 mins.
    Let's relax into a more orderly world with this classic of urban planning. This time, the best designs for structural walls, balancing the bodily elements, and placing temples. Also, we name the winds and create a compass to align our streets for greatest health. Governance caring about the health of the people? Dreamy indeed!
     
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    Music: "Peace," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

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  • Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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

    1/26/2026 | 54 mins.
    Let's continue along this relaxing, and much delayed, voyage to Central and South America. This time, we arrive in Panama and are treated to an extremely detailed description of that brand-new marvel of engineering, the Panama Canal, just before it opened to the world. Lakes and locks and dams, oh my!
     
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    Music: "Boring Books for Bedtime," by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

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  • Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

    All About Dogs, by Charles Henry Lane, Part 2

    1/19/2026 | 50 mins.
    Tonight, let's snuggle up with man's best friend as we learn more about breeds of dogs. This time, more dogs used in the sporting life, including pointers, setters, and bloodhounds. Also, a rather long bit about otters from a circa-1600 book that our author found interesting, and why not. Follow your bliss, friends.
     
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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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