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
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
The Spirit of Hope
Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens
Dao De Jing
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile
Grievance: In Fragments
Ngardi to English Dictionary
Pseudoscience
Life in the Pitlane
Between Two Rivers
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction
Moving Focus: Essays on Indian Art
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Amongst the Grapevines
Dear Bi Men
Leviathan Volume 2
The Caribbean Race Reader
Our Brains, Our Selves
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name ; No Name In The Street; The Devil Finds Work
Indeterminate Inflorescence
Malayan Classicism
In Defense of Barbarism: Non-Whites Against the Empire
Laozi's Dao De Jing
The Koran and the Flesh
Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You
Unity and Struggle
My Country, Africa
Iran's Rise and Rivalry with the US in the Middle East
The Bright Side
Defy
All of It
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto
Forgotten
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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.
