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
La Mesa Mexicana: The food of Mexico
House of Nanking
Tiger Slayer: The Extraordinary Story of Nur Jahan, Empress of India
Beyond the Wall: Writing a Path through Palestine
Red and Black in Harlem and Jamaica
Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans
Search and Destroy Vol. 2
James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time
Long Day? Cook This.
This Is Why You Dream
On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us
The Choi of Cooking
The Eagle and the Crow
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
Shamanism: The Timeless Religion
The Practice of Immortality
Make It Meatless
Death: A Yogi's Guide to Living, Dying and Beyond
Dan in Green Gables: A Graphic Novel
Standstill
Three Begums: The Women Who Shaped My Life
Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory
Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration
Deep History: Country and Sovereignty
Salsa Daddy
The Book of Alchemy
Cosy Creepy
Art on my Mind: Visual Politics
The Snag
Nobody Can Give You Freedom
The Half of It: Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience
The Arabs and the Holocaust
Linger
FERMENT: A Cookbook
The Woman Warrior
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting
This Place Kills Me
The Baker's Book
Imagine: Creating Desserts with Christy Tania
Critical Lives: Zora Neale Hurston
Daybreak in Gaza
After Zionism
My Vietnam, Your Vietnam
Kiku: The Japanese Art of Good Listening
The Great Betrayal
Real Japanese Cooking
Unbroken
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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.