Cricket Legend and Rajya Sabha MP Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography, Playing It My Way, has entered the Limca Book of Records in the category of best-selling books across both fiction and non-fiction categories with 1,50,289 copies sold on order subscriptions. The book has been published by Hachette India in the year 2014 with Boria Majumdar as the co-author of the book.
The book’s orders, on day one, already saw it pulling ahead of both pre-order and lifetime sales of the world’s top adult hardbacks Dan Brown’s Inferno, Walter Issacson’s Steve Jobs and JK Rowling’s Casual Vacancy.
List of autobiographies authored by famous Indians
- Toward Freedom, Jawaharlal Nehru
- The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mahatma Gandhi
- Tuzuk-e-Jahangiri, Jahangir
- The Bandit Queen of India, Phoolan Devi
- One Life is not Enough, Natwar Singh
- The Race of My Life, Milkha Singh
- The Test of My Life, Yuvraj Singh
- Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda
- Wings of Fire, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
- Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
- Courage and Conviction, General VK Singh