--- title: Carrie Fisher's Books Hit Bestseller List After Her Death description: Carrie Fisher's 'The Princess Diarist' topped Amazon's bestseller list after the Star Wars' actor's deat canonical: https://time.com/4618983/carrie-fisher-books-bestsellers/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-28T17:12:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:29:23.018Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Carrie Fisher's Books Top Amazon's Bestseller List After Her Death og:description: 'The Princess Diarist' topped Amazon's list og:url: https://time.com/4618983/carrie-fisher-books-bestsellers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74bc9e6b16f34588/6988b41eab6d7717af6ac59d/carrie-fisher-book.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Carrie Fisher Book Signing For "The Princess Diarist" og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Carrie Fisher's Books Top Amazon's Bestseller List After Her Death twitter:description: 'The Princess Diarist' topped Amazon's list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74bc9e6b16f34588/6988b41eab6d7717af6ac59d/carrie-fisher-book.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Carrie Fisher's Books Top Amazon's Bestseller List After Her Death by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 28, 2016 5:12 PM CUT  Carrie Fisher attends her book signing for "The Princess Diarist" at Barnes & Noble at The Grove on November 28, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Carrie Fisher attends her book signing for "The Princess Diarist" at Barnes & Noble at The Grove on November 28, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.Jerritt Clark—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 28, 2016 5:12 PM CUT [Carrie Fisher’s death at 60](http://time.com/4618441/carrie-fisher-dead/ "undefined") has spurred her fans to snap up copies of her books, pushing three of them to the top 10 list on Amazon. Fisher’s most recent book, [_The Princess Diarist_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399173595/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined"), was the number-one book on Amazon as of Wednesday morning. The memoir, released in November, presents excerpts from the diary she kept while playing Princess Leia in the original _Star Wars_ film, recently rediscovered by the actor not long before her death. The book includes reminiscences about her crush on co-star Harrison Ford and other behind-the-scenes doings. Her 2008 memoir [_Wishful Drinking_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/143915371X/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") (based on her one-woman show of the same name) clocked in at number seven. [_Postcards From the Edge_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439194009/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined"), her semi-autobiographical 1987 novel, ranked ninth. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4618983/carrie-fisher-books-bestsellers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4618983/carrie-fisher-books-bestsellers/"},"headline":"Carrie Fisher's Books Top Amazon's Bestseller List After Her Death","datePublished":"2016-12-28T17:12:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:29:23.018Z","description":"The Princess Diarist was No. 1 on Amazon's bestseller list on Wednesday","url":"https://time.com/4618983/carrie-fisher-books-bestsellers/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74bc9e6b16f34588/6988b41eab6d7717af6ac59d/carrie-fisher-book.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt74bc9e6b16f34588/6988b41eab6d7717af6ac59d/carrie-fisher-book.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Carrie Fisher Book Signing For \"The Princess Diarist\"","caption":"Carrie Fisher Book Signing For \"The Princess Diarist\"","creditText":"Jerritt Clark—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4618983/carrie-fisher-books-bestsellers/","name":"Carrie Fisher's Books Top Amazon's Bestseller List After Her Death"}}]}] ```