Books by Amy Duggar King
Shattering the Shiny Facade by Getting Louder with the Truth (Zondervan, 2025). My #1 bestselling memoir. Read a free chapter, pick a format, and stay a while.
#1 in three Amazon categories: Christian Families, Biographies & Memoirs, Parenting & Relationships. 8,000+ ratings on Goodreads · Hardcover, e-book and audiobook read by me. Honorable mention, Religion News Service Top Religion & Spirituality Books of 2025.
For years, I knew something was wrong and didn’t have the language to say it out loud. I had the feeling first, that quiet, persistent knowing that something in my family, my faith or my relationships wasn’t right. But I didn’t have the words. So I stayed silent, the way I’d been taught to.
This book is what happened when I finally found the words. And if you’re reading this, I think part of you has been looking for them too.
Behind the shiny facade: growing up close to a strict religious world, finding my own voice, and reclaiming who I am through healing and faith.
My story behind the shiny facade: growing up close to a strict religious world, finding my own voice, and reclaiming who I am through healing and faith.
Anyone who wants to be free of dysfunctional families, toxic situations or cycles of abuse, and anyone rebuilding after control, dysfunction or loss.
I recorded it myself. If you’d rather hear the story in my voice, start there.
There’s a kind of silence that gets handed down through families like an heirloom. You learn it before you learn your own name. You learn it the way you learn to breathe, without anyone teaching you, until one day you realize how shallow the breaths are.
For most of my life, I thought being good meant being quiet. I thought love meant keeping the peace. I thought faith meant not asking the questions that made everyone uncomfortable at the dinner table. I was wrong about all three.
This book is what happened when I finally asked the questions out loud.
Read a full chapter free: Chapter Fifteen, “Famy”, as a PDF. No signup, no strings. Read the free chapter
Hardcover for the highlighter people. E-book for the late-night readers. Audiobook for the long drives, and yes, I recorded it myself.
Or ask for it at your local bookstore. ISBN 978-0-310-36995-0.
Amy tells her story with honesty and grace.
Her reflections on generational trauma and abuse are touching and authentic.
Amy was the perfect narrator to tell her own account.
Her writing is really well done and more evolved than I had expected.
Easy to read and really admire her for telling her own story.
The book was so well written and really opened my eyes.
The book is one door. LOUDER is the next: the process I used to rebuild, now an app for anyone. Six structured stages. 365 formations of change. It starts with a free five-question quiz that shows how you lean.
Five free reading plans on the YouVersion Bible App that walk through the same ground as the book: Rest in the Storm (7 days) · Facing the Truth of Pain (5 days) · Inviting Jesus into the Mess (5 days) · God’s Voice vs. the Crowd (5 days) · Lies We Believe (5 days).
Yes. Holy Disruptor: Shattering the Shiny Facade by Getting Louder with the Truth is my memoir, published by Zondervan in 2025.
My journey of healing, faith and reclaiming who I am: growing up close to a strict religious world, finding my own voice, and setting boundaries to break cycles of generational trauma.
No. The book stands on its own. If you’re curious about the public history behind it, my About page walks through it year by year.
I do. I recorded the audiobook myself.
Hardcover and Kindle on Amazon, the e-book on Apple Books, the audiobook on Audible, and at bookstores. All the links are in the formats section above.
Yes. Chapter Fifteen, “Famy”, is free as a PDF. No signup needed, though I’ll also send it to you with my letters if you’d like.
Yes, two ways. Premiere Collectibles offers a hardcover signed on a bookplate with a certificate of authenticity (it sells out, so check back if it’s gone). Or bring your copy to one of my events and I’ll sign it in person. See my Speaking page for where I’ll be.
Not yet. If your group is reading Holy Disruptor together, email Hello@amyduggarking.com and we’ll help with group copies.
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I'll send you a chapter of Holy Disruptor right away, then letters from me. You're not doing this alone.