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
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
The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Beginners
The Power of Chōwa
A Woman is No Man
Make it Japanese
India After Gandhi
Right Story, Wrong Story
Stay True
Little Brother
The Girl With the Louding Voice
All About Love
Silk
Imad's Syrian Kitchen
My Journey to the World Cup
The Wretched of the Earth
An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba
Going Home
Quick Fixes: Drugs in American Capitalism
Eat Lao
Actually Super
The Milky Way
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun
be/longing
Hysterical
Huda F Cares
The Family Law
I Want to Die, But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Black Teacher
The Other Black Girl
The Fire People
Uncommon Wealth
Manifesto
Her Father's Daughter
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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.
