Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

Let's learn more from Mrs. Beeton about vegetable soups and their ingredients, all of which will be ruined by hours-long boiling. Also, the Prince of Wales is honored with tiny turnip balls.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "The Book of Household Management" at Project Gu...

Tonight, let's relax with more from the fascinating world of bees and learn all about murderous queens, busy workers, growing larvae, and lazy drones. It's all sweet honey for your sleepy mind.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "The Hive and the Honey-Bee" at Project Guten...

Let's continue our sleepy sojourn to Everest and enjoy the flowers of Tibet, pursue timid gazelles, visit monasteries, endure a mutiny and a tragedy, and fire some drunken cooks. Adventurous!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921" at Pr...

Let's relax with the spread of Christianity in Britain, penned by a saint who was actually there. But first, a preface, an intro, and a biography of the blessed Bede! We do get to the history eventually, but you'll probably be asleep.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "Ecc...

Let's relax and sleep to more 19th-century know-how, and learn how to set up a cheese factory, get milk to curdle, and appreciate our buddy, lactic acid.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! All supporters in July will be entered into a giveaway for a custom episode of Boring Books for Bedtime made just for you. Yay! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: h...

Let's take a relaxing shop through some of Sears' lesser-known offerings—houses! From Craftsmans to cottages or an entire apartment building, it can all be delivered to you, guaranteed.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! All supporters in July will be entered into a giveaway for a custom episode of Boring Books for Bedtime made just for you. Yay! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/b...

Let's return to Pliny's relaxing opus and learn about the seasons, planting schedules, and the best time to buy a winter cloak so you don't get price gouged. It's all written in the stars!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! All supporters in July will be entered into a giveaway for a custom episode of Boring Books for Bedtime made just for you. Yay! Patreon: https://www.patreon.co...

Let's relax and sleep with quiet thoughts on a loud art, including speculation on Eastern origins, deadly Greek fire, and every mention of fireworks in Europe for a thousand years (no, really).   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! All supporters in July will be entered into a giveaway for a custom episode of Boring Books for Bedtime made just for you. Yay! Patreon: https://www.patre...

By listener request, let's relax and sleep with this guide to the purchasing, care, and training of horses in Ancient Greece. To sum up, hooves are everything, and kindness counts. Good advice!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "On Horsemanship" at Project Gutenberg:  http...

Let's hear from the world's greatest showman how to live a wealthy, happy life. Sleepy spoiler alert: do things you're good at, don't envy others, and spend less than you make. Talk about boring!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "The Art of Money Getting" at Project Guten...

Let's continue with this sleepy theory about the Earth and how fish migrations absolutely, positively prove that it must be hollow. What other explanation could there be? None, says Symmes!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "Symmes Theory of Concentric Spheres" at Project...

Let's finish our tour of the sleepy world of spices, learn about grains of paradise (my favorite medieval spice), and reveal the connection between saffron and…crocodiles? Sure, why not.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "Spices, Their Histories" at Project Gutenberg:  htt...

Let's relax and sleep with more about apple history, creating hybrids, and the validity of Van Mons' theories of propagation. Yeah, I don't know either, but I guess he was big in Belgium.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "American Pomology: Apples" at Project Gutenberg: h...

Let's relax with a subject near and dear to your reader's heart—cats! Drift off to the intelligence of felines, the first cat show, and drama at the Cat Club. Scandalous!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "Our Cats & All About Them" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenb...

Let's return to Aristotle's classic on the purpose of life. What's it all for, anyway? No real answers here tonight, alas, but at least he can help us sleep through the confusion.   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "The Ethics of Aristotle" at Project Gutenberg:  https://ww...

Let's return to the flower-filled fields of sleep and learn about insect-charming orchids, blistering buttercups, and pinks of the killing kind. Nature is a cruel mistress!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "Wild Flowers Worth Knowing" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gut...

In more from this sleepy history, we take a tour of the glories of Greece and Persia, the brief blaze of Alexander, and the intellectual legacy of the Golden Age. Dreamy!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "A Short History of the World" at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gut...

Let's fall asleep to schooling in the fine art of drawing. We learn how to hold a pencil and draw a line, but only after the kind of lengthy introduction at which 19th century writers excelled. My favorite!   Want to support our equipment fundraiser? Here's the link! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW/wishlist Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacof...

Let's sleep through the stress of Tax Day with more from this capital classic, learn the history of money, how diamonds are dumb, and why a cow's worth of salt is…really too much salt.   Want to support our equipment fundraiser? Here's the link! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW/wishlist Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read...

Let's take a sleepy browse through this marvelous catalog, just in time for spring. Vegetables, flowers, and novelties for the garden abound from America's finest purveyor of plants. Want to support our equipment fundraiser? Here's the link! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW/wishlist Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Browse t...

In this remastered episode from the wayback, let's take a relaxing trip aboard the good ship Bounty, which maybe you've heard of? It's all breadfruit and bad weather (so far). Sleep ahoy!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "A Voyage to the South Sea" at Project Gutenberg he...

Let's return to the British Museum of the 19 th century and complete our sleepy tour of birds of the world, from ducks to dodos. It's case after case of curiosities for your tired mind!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "How to See the British Museum in Four Visits" at Pro...

Let's relax into delicious dreams with this guide to confectionery. Learn the correct stripes for stick candy, the construction of "strawberry rock," and the stages of sugar. Sweet!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "Frye's Practical Candy Maker" at Project Gutenberg here:...

Let's return to more sleepy science and ponder life on the moon, the makeup of meteorites, and the long, strange lives of comets as they wander through our universe. Spacey!   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "Astronomy for Young Folks" at Project Gutenberg here: https://ww...

Let's begin a sleepy trip through the mountains of France, in which our novice author invents a sleeping bag, buys a donkey, and answers the question, "What could go wrong?"   Help us stay ad-free and 100% listener-supported! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/boringbookspod Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/d5kcMsW   Read "Travels with a Donkey" at Project Gutenberg here: https://www.gu...