In utter silence, I used to have to fall asleep. The problem is twofold: First, any sound is very difficult to manage on earphones (and I never sleep on earplugs), and secondly, my own spin-off thoughts have left me alone.
I tried as a joke to ASMR, but now I am relying on those whispering videos to distract my brain from sleeping — without being interesting enough to warrant my full attention.
Sadly, it means every night to pick a new video and I have no choice.
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Naturally, I first thought about my all-out solution: is there a book that can help? I’ve stumbled to podcasts mostly asleep. What if I was sleeping instead in an audiobook? It’s a little holy, so I’m ready to get beyond this.
My colleague, Book Rioters, had a long list of audiobooks that I thought I would share with you! You should stick to books you have already read if you are worried about missing something in the novel.
Alternatively, many players in the listening book have a feature where they pause automatically after a certain period so that you can hear the book in a sleepy mood for around 10 – 30 minutes and then drift away after a pause.
Follow us along as we dig deeper in finding the best sleeping audiobooks for you to have a healthy and stress-free life.
Let’s get started…
Best Audiobooks to Help You Sleep Faster
- The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood
Another favorite audiobook and a calming narrator, Bill Bryson, is Book Rioters. He is able to select a lot of titles, but some are narrated in an abbreviated version only. I enjoyed his A Brief History of Almost All so I’m sure his other books will go well too.
Some people claim that when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri panties, Bill Bryson did not come from Planet Earth. At the age of six, some assume that everything began with the discovery of an unusual woolen jersey. There was a golden thunderbolt through the moth-holed chest. It might seem like a soccer sweater from old college, but young Bryson knew better. It’s the Sacred Jersey of Zap, obviously, and it proves that he’s put in the center of America with this harmless family to ride, become invisibly, fire weapons from a distance and wear his slippers like Superman over its jeans.
Best About This Audiobook
This audiobook grows up at a certain time. But, in Bryson’s hands, it’s the story of everyone, of anyone who’s been ever young, talking volumes. It’s a great audiobook for you to help calmly sleep during bedtimes.
- Atonement
Briony Tallis, 13, saw her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes on the hottest day of summer 1934, and dive into a fountain in her country house backyard. Her mate, as Cecilia has recently descended from Cambridge, is watching Robbie Turner.
The lives of these three are forever changed by the end of the day. Robbie and Cecilia are going to have crossed a border they had not even dreamed of before, and become the victims of the imagination of the younger girl. Briony may have encountered mysteries and has committed a crime that she will want to remedy for the remainder of her life.
Best About This Audiobook
Atonement is a prestigious narrative with a gradual development. This book is characterized by favorable reviews as a silent, reflective, moving tale. It’s dull and frustrating to get through the negative evaluations. It sounds like a decent book for the dormant. It sounds like either way. I have heard that the version Jill Tanner narrated is relaxing, so let me know if anyone has a tip on which narrator has the most calming voice!
- Ladybird Sleepy Tales: Ten calming stories to help little children relax at bedtime
Ladybird was dedicated to you.
With this soothing audio set, create a relaxing atmosphere for your child’s bedtime routine.
Ladybird Sleepy Tales have been created and tested by parents and are designed primarily to encourage three to six-year-olds to cool down after a day of activities. They are designed with the Children Sleep Charity.
They’re the ideal tool to share your nightly routine before or after bedtime.
Each story lasts for 15 minutes, so you can switch your audiobook on without having to return to the phone.
Follow a snowflake on a gentle ride to the ground, swim around in a jumping bubble or take a magical trip towards the end of a rainbow.
Best About This Audiobook
In order to create this audiobook, Children’s Slum Charity provided knowledge and advice.
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- The Secret History
While Donna Tartt’s earlier novel The Hidden Past is known better by The Goldfinch, an amazing audiobook of cults. It also includes one of my favorite quotes about not sleeping:
There is nothing more lonely and distortive than sleeplessness. Then I spent my night reading Greek till four in the morning until the only light in Monmouth House was mine until I had my eyes burning and my mind swam. When the alphabet started to turn into incoherent triangles and pitchforks and it was difficult for me to focus further on Greek, I read The Great Gatsby. It is my favorite book, and I took it out of the bookstore in the hope of cheering me up.
I had taken it from the library in the expectation that it would cheer me up. It just made me feel worse, naturally, because I didn’t see anything in my own humorless state except for what I perceived as some tragic synchronizations between Gatsby and myself.
Best About This Audiobook
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Donna Tartt in this brilliant novel offers us a richly structured and hypnotic golden youth’s tale, which is tainted by her own vanity.
This audiobook is a sure soothing way to dwelling sleep.
- To the Lighthouse
The Ramsay family went to their vacation home in the Hebrides just before the First World War and took them some guests. One of the kids wants to visit a lighthouse during their time. After 10 years of war in Europe, one of the customers returns to the house and a trip to the lighthouse is also given.
A landmark English fictional job is in The Lighthouse. In some of the most beautiful prose ever published, Virginia Woolf discusses interpretation and meaning in-depth, the thoughts and observations on characters.
Best About This Audiobook
From a number of points of view, recited in a precise, sensitive, and illusionist language, To The Lighthouse provides unparalleled insight into character minds and an extensive tale about the personal and social transition in the post-war world.
- A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming: Mastering the Art of Oneironautics
Just suppose you can fly. Go across walls. Walk across walls. The shift of shape. Breathe underwater. Breathe underwater. Conjure the beloved or the absolute alien from thin air. Just imagine your nighttime dreams with the same perception, memory, imagination, and self-awareness that works right now.
Imagine using this power to be imaginative, solve problems and discover a profound sense of goodness. It’s the simple dream of recognizing that you’re dreaming in a dream, then actively discovering and modifying the elements of a dream. A Lucid Dreaming field guide shows how to do it exactly.
This manual for the dream world, written by three willing, seasoned dreamers, enables readers to learn how to reconnect with their dreams through the endless possibilities of what can happen when they have the dreams clear, a performed oneironaut (a word that comes from the Greek online, meaning dreams, and nautis, meaning sailor).
Readers will discover the mighty REM sleep, a window on lucid dreams. Enhance dream memory by holding a newspaper. Try to move your finger through your palm during the day, such as “the finger.” If you do this effectively, then you will realize that you dream.
Best About This Audiobook
This audiobook is an excellent narration and an ultimate sleeping audiobook you can enjoy every day.
You wash up on the banks of your internal landscape every time you dream. Learn to discover a weird universe with A Lucid Dreaming Field Guide.
- We Must Be Brave
We can’t choose who we love.
We can choose who we fight for.
‘A powerful story that proves how love itself requires courage’ Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing
As Ellen Parr newly married discovers her child sleeping on the back seat of an empty bus in the uneasy evacuation in Southampton, England, in December 1940. Nobody knows who Pamela’s tiny. Ellen said she doesn’t want kids to have with her older husband and she learns that it is real when she brings Pamela into her home and quickly into her heart. Ellen doesn’t want kids. Just Pamela needs her. The Second World War is raging for three golden years. One day, Pamela, crying, is taken away.
As she brings Pamela into her house, Ellen thought that she had fled from the past and she thought she wanted the future, because it seems that the only thing that can be sure in uncertain times is love.
But the end of the struggle comes to the realization that Pamela had never been hers…
Best About This Audiobook
We Must be brave is an epic and profoundly moving audiobook about how we save each other and how the human heart is stunningly tired. A mesmerizing method to drool in your dreams.
- Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life
An instant New York Times bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller
Audio Exclusive: Includes candid conversations with the author, narrated by Mia Lux and Alexis Banc.
The owner’s manual for mental expansion and brain fitness was written by JIM KWIK, World’s #1 brain coach. Limitless helps people to achieve more productivity, more progress, more personal success, and business success by improving their way of thinking, their motivation, and their methods.
The ‘3 M’s live in the Unlimited pages along with practical techniques which unlock your brain’s superpowers and change your habits.
Jim Kwik has worked closely for over 25 years with influential men and women as actors, athletes, CEOs, and business leaders from all walks of life to unlock their real potential. He reveals in this pioneering book.
In this groundbreaking audiobook, he reveals the science-based practices and field-tested tips to accelerate self-learning, communication, memory, focus, recall, and speed reading, to create fast, hard results.
This audiobook helps you learn:
-FLIP YOUR MINDSET
-IGNITE YOUR MOTIVATION
-MASTER THE METHOD
Best About This Audiobook
Exclusive audiobook! Jim Kwik is joined by speaker and performer Mia Lux, host of The Conscious-Ishow, in an audio-book-special interview at the end of almost every chapter in the audio edition of Limitless.
These unscripted discussions spread over several different fields, discuss the chapter’s core concepts, share personal ideas and perspectives, and shed light on how Infinite ideals function in the actual scenarios — many from Jim’s own life.
- The Little Prince: A new translation
Audiobook by Michael Morpurgo Random House presents the Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Read by Richard E. Grant, reading Michael Morpurgo’s introduction.
If a little fellow joins, smiles, has golden hair, and never asks questions, you’ll know who he is.
He is the Little Prince, the enigmatic, innocent, and lovely boy who seems to be the pilot lost in the wilderness and makes a wonderful request. Since 1943, his story first appeared by an aristocratic French aviator who quickly vanished on a flight across the sea, it captured the hearts of millions of readers all over the world.
The Little Prince goes out of his home to the stars to our world. He comes along with a lot of disadvantaged adults and a fox who shows him how to look at things that are important to life. But he left behind a flower that was growing on his star, a rose that is his treasure and his burden.
Best About This Audiobook
Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, the author of War Horse, has adopted what is “one of the greatest stories ever written” to make English reading awesome. For everybody, children and adult children, rulers, geographers, and lamp-beamers even for serious and very wise people, the little prince is a great audiobook to listen to for bedtime.
- Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults: Relaxing Sleep Stories, Guided Mindfulness Meditations & Self-Hypnosis For Deep Sleep, Overcoming Anxiety, Insomnia & Stress Relief
If you want to go to bed quickly every single night without any pills or narcotics…
Insomnia suffering? Have many nights without sleep? Can it never appear to relax? Overcome late in the night with pessimistic and distressing thoughts?
It was impossible for us in the modern world to turn off and sleep the entire world.
More tension, more stimulation, and more information are continuously being bombarded 24/7.
This can make relaxing and sleeping almost difficult for us.
However, it doesn’t have to always be that way.
By listening to guided meditations and bedtime stories before bed, we encourage the mind and body to slow down naturally while we are in bed.
Each tale was carefully crafted to promote a state of profound relaxation in a few minutes and allow you to sleep away.
Best About This Audiobook
Calming tales, from taking you to the most beautiful beaches, all the way to the exotic…
And BARELY scratches the surface!
So, if you want a great deal of relaxation and guided meditation to help you spontaneously fall asleep, just scroll up and press “Add to Cart .”
Final Verdict
If you’re listening to a sleeping audiobook or doing something else in the last hour before bed, the trick is finding something that will reduce your arousal levels. If something other than listening to audio libraries to fall asleep will help you cool down before sleep, it is all very well. Have good sleep.
Do Let me know if you have any other sleeping audiobooks calming ideas in the comments!
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