13 best-selling nonfiction books like Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller

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Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

By: Sheila Weller

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid--and brilliant--Carrie FisherIn her 2008 bes…

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1. Surrender the Pink

By: Carrie Fisher

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A study of metropolitan mating manners by the author of "Postcards from the Edge". Dinah Kaufman is… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Fisher's Surrender the Pink book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • feminism
  • audiobook
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2. Postcards from the Edge

By: Carrie Fisher

3.62

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Fisher beautifully brings readers the inside of Hollywood through a web of humor, drugs, relationsh… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Fisher's Postcards from the Edge book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • audiobook
  • biography memoir
  • mental health
"It’s like I’ve got a visa for happiness, but for sadness I’ve got a lifetime pass."

-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

"Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir"

-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

" Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously."

-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

"I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere."

-Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge

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3. Shockaholic

By: Carrie Fisher

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Infused with Carrie Fisher's trademark incisive wit and on the heels of Wishful Drinking's instant … read more

Similar categories in Carrie Fisher's Shockaholic book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Princess Diarist

By: Carrie Fisher

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

The Princess Diaristis Carrie Fisher's intimate, hilarious and revealing recollection of what happe… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Fisher's The Princess Diarist book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • star wars
  • audiobook
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5. Wishful Drinking

By: Carrie Fisher

3.82

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

6. The Best Awful

By: Carrie Fisher

3.17

Format: 55 pages,

Born into privilege and Hollywood royalty, Carrie Fisher has been a movie star, a bestselling autho… read more

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7. George Lucas: A Life

By: Brian Jay Jones

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of one of the most influential filmmakers ever--George Lucas. On May 25, 1… read more

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8. My Mother Was Nuts

By: Penny Marshall

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Most people know Penny Marshall as the director of Big and A League of Their Own. What they don't k… read more

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9. Unsinkable: A Memoir

By: Debbie Reynolds , Dorian Hannaway

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Audio

The definitive memoir by legendary actress and performer Debbie Reynolds--an entertaining and movin… read more

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10. Debbie: My Life

By: Debbie Reynolds , David Patrick Columbia

3.91

Format: 434 pages,

In the '50s, Debbie Reynolds was Hollywood's reigning ingenue.Pretty, sassy, and bright... America'… read more

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11. A Tragic Kind of Wonderful

By: Eric Lindstrom

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For sixteen-year-old Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle i… read more

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12. You Never Know: A Memoir

By: Tom Selleck

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern Ca… read more

Similar categories in Tom Selleck's You Never Know: A Memoir book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon

By: Kate Andersen Brower

4.16

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever auth… read more

Similar categories in Kate Andersen Brower's Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

By: Anthony Daniels

3.89

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

"Gloriously witty, keen and spirited" J.J. Abrams, Director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker … read more

Similar categories in Anthony Daniels's I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • star wars
  • audiobook
"George and I talked. An hour passed. Surely we both had things to do. There was a silence. Nervously. 'Please, may I play the part?' George paused. Then quietly, 'Shurr.' Not even a word. Hardly a sy…"

-Anthony Daniels, I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

"They can see the character, standing before them. The voice became iconic in its own right. Parents often ask me to do it for their children, who don't quite believe them. After all, any old man can …"

-Anthony Daniels, I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

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15. Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

By: Sheila Weller

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid--and brilliant--Carrie FisherIn her 2008 bes… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • star wars
  • audiobook
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16. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

By: Jennifer Vanderbes

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Vanderbes's Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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17. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie

By: Todd Fisher

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A revelatory and touching tribute to the lives of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds written by the … read more

Similar categories in Todd Fisher's My Girls: A Lifetime with Carrie and Debbie book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra

19. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

By: Natalie Dykstra

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Dykstra's Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

20. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kiser's Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant book and Sheila Weller's Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

15 must-read audiobook books like Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller

Transform Your Habits

Surrender the Pink

Carrie Fisher

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Postcards from the Edge

Carrie Fisher

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Shockaholic

Carrie Fisher

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Princess Diarist

Carrie Fisher

4.04

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18 Top audiobook books like I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story by Anthony Daniels

Transform Your Habits

Shockaholic

Carrie Fisher

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Princess Diarist

Carrie Fisher

4.04

Transform Your Habits

From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (From a Certain Point of View, #3)

Elizabeth Schaefer

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Star Wars: The Living Force

John Jackson Miller

3.81

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