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
The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes
White Hibiscus
Feasts of Good Fortune
Coastal Harvest
Craveable: All I want to eat
Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers
Women and Global Documentary
Manhole Volume 2
Design Otherwise: Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region
The Other Side of Tomorrow
We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition
Ancient China
Sir Lewis: The Definitive Biography
Letting Go of Perfectionism
A History of the World in Six Plagues
Unruly
To Tend and To Hold
Monsoon
India in a World Adrift
The War Against Women
New Geography of Innovation
The Incarcerations
I Am Not a Tourist
Women Who Wear Only Themselves
Docile
Full Circle
Can Feminism Be African?
The Joy of Saying No
My (Half) Latinx Kitchen
Mainline Mama
Kirby's Lessons for Falling (in Love)
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
To Stand with Palestine
Hello Sleep
Citizen
Toitū Te Whenua
Do This Before Bed
Saving Five
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Essential Dick Gregory
Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue Doorman
The Kimbap Cookbook
On Love
Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation
Cave of My Ancestors
Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto
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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.
