Taking First: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Rounding the Bases series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Taking First audiobook runs 6.5 hours unabridged, narrated by E.M. Wylde and Alyx Monroe (about 4.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 6.5 hours, it is shorter than 66% of the 63,227 Romance audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Rounding the Bases
This is book 1. Books 1 to 3 run 23.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taking First | 6.5 hrs |
| 2 | Stealing Second | 9.4 hrs |
| 3 | Force at Third | 7.4 hrs |
More narrated by E.M. Wylde
E.M. Wylde narrates 28 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 272 hours in all.
About as long, on the Romance shelf
7,477 Romance audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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- A Court of Wings and Ruin (3 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]: A Court of Thorns and Roses 3
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Taking First is book 1 of MJ Fields's Rounding the Bases series: a 6.5-hour unabridged recording, read by E.M. Wylde and Alyx Monroe, released July 8, 2025, on the Romance shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- E.M. Wylde, Alyx Monroe
- Released
- July 8, 2025
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Romance
- Series
- Rounding the Bases #1
- ISBN
- 9798855575446
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Taking First audiobook?
Taking First runs 6.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.3 hours.
Is the Taking First audiobook free?
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Who narrates Taking First?
Taking First is narrated by E.M. Wylde and Alyx Monroe.