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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
Was That Racist?
The Double Tax: How Women of Colour Are Overcharged and Underpaid
City of Others
Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines
Goddess with a Thousand Faces
The Secret of Snow
How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
The Poet Empress
The Magnificent Ruins
Persian Mythology
The Swan's Daughter
Family Thai: Bringing the Flavors of Thailand Home
India in a Bowl
Shh . . . Give Me a Moment
Chronically Online
Meant to be in Manila
What Has Society Got to Do with my Pain?
Stories From The Islands
LUHA NG BUWAYA (Crocodile's Tears)
Tapestry of the Mind and Other Stories
Adorable
Swimming Lessons
My Lady Hiraya
Dugo Sa Bukang-Liwayway (Bleeding Sun)
No Man River
Merdeka Generation Groovers and Other Stories
Why Did You Buy That Drink?
The Longing
The Shaman's Circle
In Safe Hands
Ashura: A Filipino Reckoning
From Southeast Asia to Indo-Pacific
Boys' Love
Grave of the Fireflies
Mental Detox
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Transfigurations
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
If Queers Weren't Meant to Have Kids . . .
The Samurai Detectives: Volume 1
Glorious Table: Beautiful Food for a Delicious Life
Rivers Flow
Bloom
Kissing is the Easy Part
The Age of Extraction
Black Climates
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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.
