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
Betraying Big Brother
Sway
Quantum Computing
Lose Your Mother
Letters to my White Male Friends
Tea and Solidarity
A Beginner's Guide to America
Peak Mind
Knitting for Radical Self-Care
Malika: Warrior Queen (volume 1)
Malika: Warrior Queen (volume 2)
The Body is Not an Apology (2nd ed.)
The Reset
Memoria
Race Against Time
Let Love Rule
Rangers of the Divide
Loving Country
Trick Mirror
maar bidi: next generation black writing
Green
Black Widow
True Tracks
Big Friendship
Brown Baby
A Most Beautiful Thing
A Dutiful Boy
What Cats Want
Happiness Becomes You
Kissing Emma
When They Call You a Terrorist
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Welcome to Country: 2nd Edition
Venus in the Blind Spot
The Dragonfly Will be the Messiah
The Address Book
Black Spartacus
How to Live When a Loved One Dies
Mixed/Other
The Mushroom at the End of the World
A Fleeting Moment in My Country
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell
On Being Included
Catalyst
Overground Railroad
Wild & Witchy
Confucius' Courtyard
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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.
