Collection:
Classic non-fiction
Sister, Outsider
Black Skin, White Masks
The Wretched of the Earth
Notes of a Native Son
Persepolis (Books 1 & 2)
The World We Once Lived In
The Democracy of Species
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Uncanny and Improbable Events
When I Dare to Be Powerful
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The Maverick Pig
The Black Unicorn
Don't Take Your Love to Town
The Most Dammed Country in the World
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
The Pleasure of Thinking
Holocaust Island
A Taste of Power
I Embrace You With All my Revolutionary Fervor
The End of History and the Last Man
The Cancer Journals
The Art of War
A Small Place
A Nation of Women
Black Teacher
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
Michel the Giant
Darkwater
And Still I Rise
Hidden Figures
Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Manga Version
Latin America Diaries
Fly, Wild Swans
Collected Poems
Stride Toward Freedom
Wild Swans
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Britons Through Negro Spectacles
Blues People
Women Who Run with the Wolves
Among Flowers
More Fiya
The Ink Dark Moon
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Fire People
Under a Bilari Tree I Born
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Amplify is an antiracist social enterprise bookshop dedicated to books by BIPOC authors. It was born out of a frustration with the structural racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change in a rigid industry.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, you can browse our curation in person and attend bookish events.
After being online-only for four years we opened our physical shopfront in November 2025. The bricks-and-mortar shop allows us to showcase the collection in full for leisurely browsing, chats, and holds a third space offering in our reading room.
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a great, low-stakes way to meet new people.
We offer various community events including speed dating, book swaps, crafting workshops, book launches, and author salons. Our in-house book club is held once a month in our reading room.
Publishing has a diversity problem. There are less diverse books being published which limits the discoverability and reach of those authors.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.