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
Coming Through the Slaughter
Running in the Family
Ever-Green Vietnamese
Kingdom of Characters
The Ink Dark Moon
Courting India
Sequins for a Ragged Hem
Radical
Talking About a Revolution
Red Memory
Fear of Black Consciousness
White Torture
Zen in the Garden
We Uyghurs Have No Say
Personal Score
A Splash of Soy
Parisian Days
The Book of Tea
Girl Taking Over (A Lois Lane story)
Don't Take Your Love to Town
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Holocaust Island
Hijab Butch Blues
Sex and Lies
My Life in Sea Creatures
Power and Resistance
Dispatches from the Diaspora
The Gender Bias
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
The Man Who Lived Underground
Feeling Myself
Libertie
Can Conflict End? by
Strong Female Character
M(other)land
Meet Me at the Intersection
Africa is Not a Country
How To Be an Antiracist
Two Sisters
Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand
In Search of Silence
Hidden Figures
The Art of Chilling Out for Women
Why Don't I Have Anything to Wear?
Against Disappearance
Divided
White Tears/Brown Scars
Family Style
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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.
