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
An Immense World
Unearthed
Nightbloom
Tiger Work
Happiness is Overrated
Black Skin, White Masks
All That She Carried
Deadly and Slick
Sisterhood Heals
7 Days of Dinner
Bland Fanatics
Late Light
Communion
Worthy
The Hard Road Out
Sand Talk
Home to Biloela
Me, Her, Us
A Man of Two Faces
The Pleasure of Thinking
Six Saturdays of Beyblade and other essays
Starry Night, Blurry Dreams
I Need Art, Reality Isn't Enough
When I Was Puerto Rican
America Made Me A Black Man
Uprooting
Anxiety is Your Superpower
More Fiya
Self Defense
Year of the Tiger
How It Feels To Find Yourself
American Whitelash
Viva Desserts
Bake Me A Cat
Wash Day Diaries
The Genome Defense
Finding the Heart of the Nation
Be Not Afraid of Love
A Joyful Life
Can I Pet Your Dog?
You Grow Gurl!
Picture Perfect
The Good Ally
You Got Anything Stronger?
A House Over Diamond Creek
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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.
