Collection:
Classic non-fiction
This is not a Small Voice
Letter From Birmingham Jail
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Singin' & Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes
Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese
Black and White
The Prophet
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
The Bolivian Diary
Bhagavad Gita
Tao Te Ching
The Analects
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
The Black Atlantic
Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan
The Heart of God
In a Land Far From Home
Unbought and Unbossed
Fermat's Last Theorem
The Good Fight
I Have a Dream
My Name is Why
At the Bottom of the River
A Daughter of the Samurai
The Black Jacobins
Haruko / Love Poems
Running in the Family
Sequins for a Ragged Hem
The Book of Tea
Can Conflict End? by
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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.
