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
Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
Ubuntu: Conversations with Françoise Blum
The Racial Wealth Gap: A Brief History
The Racialized Brain: The Neurosociology of Race and Racism
Feminism for the World
Why We Suffer and How We Heal
The Hour of the Wolf
Cosy Cats 'n' Dogs
Unpolished Gem
Imperial Footprints
Smoke, Rice, Water: Recipes and Stories from a Bengali Home
Alter Ego
On the Origin of Sex
Detective Beans: and the Map of Mystery
Good Woman: A Reckoning
Maxi's Kitchen
Latina Superheroes: Loquito & Ruca (Volume 2)
Sashiko: The Untold Story
The Good Sea
Statues: Junji Ito Story Collection
Indigenous Rules of Engagement
The Framing: A Memoir
All We Want is Everything
Guts
Decolonising My Body
The Waterbearers
Harper Sharp: Kid Detective
Eat Bitter: A Story About Guts and Food
The Korean Art of Living Well
The Red Sea Cookbook
Beyond Life and Death
Just Between Us
I Don't Love You Anymore
Mortified: Things I Have to Laugh About
On Morrison
Nadiya's Quick Comforts
How We Relate
Cosy Cottage
Women Who Win
Clayful
Loop, Hook, Loom
The World of Black Film
My Jamaican Table
The Next Fix
5 Ingredient Indian
Classic Indian Recipes
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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.
