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
Power to the People
K-Drama School
The Korean Myths
Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again
Soul-Folk
The Serviceberry
Cook Once, Eat Twice
Shattered
I Decided to Live as Me
Turkuaz Kitchen
The Spice Collector's Cookbook
How to Let Things Go
Dying for Freedom
The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act
Broken Threads
How to Build a Fashion Icon
Black Friend: Essays
Comfort in Darkness
Whaea Blue
Kai Feast
An Amerikan Family
Mind Your Manners
marramarra: Indigenous artists making history visible
The Book Of Chai
I Saw Ramallah
Fragments against My Ruin: A Life
A Woman Like Me
The Golden Wok
Health: Spirit, Country and Culture
No Name in the Street
The Worst Ronin
Bite by Bite
Tangata Ngai Tahu / People of Ngai Tahu
Energize
Sweat and Saltwater
Halfway There
Small by Small
Shadows At Noon
Becoming a Matriarch
Person Unlimited
Why Machines Learn
The Path to Self-Love
Rage
The Light We Give
The Book of Delights
And Don't F&%k It Up
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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.
