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
Call Me Chef, Dammit!
Together
Three Mothers
Peace is a Practice
The Power of Voice
The Race to the Top
Not Here to be Liked
Indian-ish
Amboy
Just As I Am
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Dancing in the Mosque
The Commonwealth of Cricket
Dance Your Dance
Chasing Failure
The Best American Science and Nature Writing
America on Fire
Viral Justice
Middle Passage
Zarifa
Without Warning and Only Sometimes
White Freedom
What I Cook When Nobody's Watching
This is a Book About Noodles
Translating Myself and Others
The Third Reconstruction
Unprotected
These Bodies of Water
Talking Strong
Surviving
Strong Female Lead
Showstopping Cakes
A Quick Ting on Plantain
A Quick Ting on Black Girl Afro
A Quick Ting on Afrobeats
RecipeTin Eats: Dinner
Queenie: Godmother of Harlem
The Other
Namwayut: We Are All One
Kurashi at Home
It's a Continent
The Heart of God
Dine in Palestine
Black Voices on Britain
Big Dress Energy
African Art Now
Move
My Road From Damascus
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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.
