The First Lady: Audiobook
Book 3 of the Church series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The First Lady runs 10.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Saidah Arrika Ekulona and Myra Lucretia Taylor and others (about 6.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10.3 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 10.3 hours, it runs longer than 74% of the 4,913 BIPOC Stories & Voices audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Church
This is book 3. Books 1 to 2 run 18.6 hours before it; books 1 to 5 run 51.6 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Preacher's Son | 9.5 hrs |
| 2 | So You Call Yourself a Man | 9.2 hrs |
| 3 | The First Lady | 10.3 hrs |
| 4 | Up To No Good | 10.7 hrs |
| 5 | The Choir Director | 12 hrs |
More narrated by Saidah Arrika Ekulona
Saidah Arrika Ekulona narrates 7 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 73 hours in all.
About as long, on the BIPOC Stories & Voices shelf
1,032 BIPOC Stories & Voices audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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
The First Lady is book 3 of Carl Weber's Church series: a 10.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Myra Lucretia Taylor and Robert Jason Jackson and others, released February 11, 2008, on the BIPOC Stories & Voices shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10.3 hrs
- Narrated by
- Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Robert Jason Jackson, Lizzie Cooper Davis, Patricia R. Floyd, Cherise Boothe
- Released
- February 11, 2008
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- BIPOC Stories & Voices
- Series
- Church #3
- ISBN
- 9781440796395
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The First Lady as an audiobook?
The First Lady runs 10.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.9 hours.
Is The First Lady free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The First Lady?
The First Lady is narrated by Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Robert Jason Jackson and Lizzie Cooper Davis and others.
Is The First Lady worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.9 hours, saving 3.4 hours.