Collection:
All Books
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
Blues People
Unprocessed
Heart Sutra
Velvet Was the Night
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Wandering Souls
The Bones of Ruin
To Catch a Raven (Women Who Dare #3)
The Refugees
The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle #1)
Light It Up
The Newlyweds
What White People Can Do Next
How To Be a (Young) Antiracist
How to Lose Friends and Influence White People
The Big O
EM-PA-THY: The Human Side of Leadership
Spell Bound
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
Blazewrath Games (Blazewrath Games #1)
A Cup of Water Under my Bed
Without Prejudice
Big Love
The Idea of You
The Looking Glass
Black Water Sister
The Bone People
Tales from the Cafe (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #2)
Consumed
Vegan Africa
A Burning
The Year of the Witching
Blood Debts
One for my Enemy
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman
The Magic Fish
Tell Me Again
Kindred
The Marvelous Mirza Girls
The Dance of the Serpents (Frey & McGrey #6)
My Spare Heart
Bloody Woman
Te Kaihau | The Windeater
Te Maiharoa and the Promised Land
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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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.
