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
When Breath Becomes Air
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
Fatherhood by Papa B
Milk, Spice, and Curry Leaves
In the Wars
Batman: The Neighborhood (Detective Comics Vol. 1)
Lāuga
Raised by Wolves
Elite Capture
A Small Place
Dreamer
Sidesplitter
Emotional Female
Good Talk
Living on Stolen Land
Tonight's Dinner 2
Mabu Mabu
Critical Pedagogy and the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Little Book of Bananas
After the Rain
Bhagavad Gita
I Am a Girl from Africa
10-minute Chinese Takeaway
On the Himalayan Trail
Confident and Killing It
Made in China
Save Me! (From Myself)
Three-Fifths
Bad Feminist
First Nations Aviators
Wandering in Strange Lands
Hallyu! The Korean Wave
The Cook You Want to Be
Himawari House
The Sword and the Shield
We Are Still Here
Against White Feminism
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
Wawata: Moon Dreaming
Lost Lake
Theory of Colours
Crip Kinship
The Little Book of Self-Healing
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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.
