The First Time I Saw Him (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick): Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The First Time I Saw Him (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) runs 7.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Tessa Albertson and Colin Donnell and others (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 7.4 hours, it is shorter than 82% of the 5,079 Contemporary Women audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Tessa Albertson
Tessa Albertson narrates 6 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 47 hours in all.
- One of Our Own: An Audio Original Thriller
- The First Time I Saw Him: The unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me - A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick
- The Next Girl: The gripping new psychological thriller with a shocking twist, the perfect holiday read
- One in Four
- Aftertaste: A love story to savour 'Deliciously evocative, bitingly inventive' Elizabeth Day
About as long, on the Contemporary Women shelf
602 Contemporary Women audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- All Your Perfects
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
- In Five Years
- Layla
- Slammed
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The First Time I Saw Him (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) is an audiobook by Laura Dave: a 7.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Tessa Albertson, Colin Donnell and CJ Wilson and others, released January 6, 2026, on the Contemporary Women and Drama shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Tessa Albertson, Colin Donnell, CJ Wilson, Rebecca Lowman
- Released
- January 6, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Contemporary Women, Drama, Popular on #BookTok
- ISBN
- 9781668102640
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The First Time I Saw Him (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) as an audiobook?
The First Time I Saw Him (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) runs 7.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.
Is The First Time I Saw Him (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The First Time I Saw Him (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick)?
The First Time I Saw Him (A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick) is narrated by Tessa Albertson, Colin Donnell, CJ Wilson and Rebecca Lowman.