Collection:
Non-fiction
Art | Biography & Memoir | Business | Classics | Coffee Table Books | Cookbooks & Food | Environment | Essays | Feminism | Finance | Guidebooks | Graphic Novels | Health | History & Culture | Journalism | Lifestyle | Music | Nature | Philosophy | Parenting | Politics | Pop Science | Race | Reading & Writing | Self-Help | Spirituality | Travel | True Crime
Turning: A Swimming Memoir
Two Trees Make a Forest
Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety
Noticing: How we Attend to the World and Each Other
Letter From Japan
Portrait of an Island on Fire
Think Like a Mathematician
The Future of Hacking
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Somebody is Walking on Your Grave
Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train
Engaged Compassion
Empire Without End: A New History of Britain and the Caribbean
Good Things
Mama Rita: Family recipes from the Mediterranean
Yoshuku: The Japanese Art of Manifesting
Grounded Success
Journeys of Empire
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Snake Talk
The White Possessive
Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran's Islamic Republic
Caste: A Global Story
The Gaza Catastrophe
Gaza in My Phone
Don't Ask the Trees for Their Names
Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Manga Version
The Activism of Art: A Decentered Anthology
Redtails in the Sunset
Puerto Rico: A National History
Kojiki: Fully Revised Edition
Rice, Miso Soup, Pickles
Mokonuts: The Cookbook
BiBi The Cookbook
Tip of the ADHD Iceberg
Now That I have Your Attention
Accidentally on Purpose
Vietnam: The Cookbook
Recipes from the American South
From Memen to Mori
The Power to Change
The Whispers of Rock
Sing a Black Girl’s Song
The Meaning of Jungkook
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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.
Amplify started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. In the physical shop, 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, and crafting workshops, as well as 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.
Representation is important.
