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The Caribbean Cookbook
The Indonesian Vegetarian Table
Classic Indian Recipes
The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan
The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism
The Indian Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the Billionaire Prince
Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers
The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan's Modernist Master
Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden
How to Love a Jamaican: Stories
The War That Made the Middle East
Shine Your Eye: In Search of West Africa
A History of the Thai Chinese
The Long War on Iran: New Events, Old Questions
BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship
In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays
Honey in the Wound
Happy on Her Own at 102
Bad Asians
The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
The Science of Drinking
Sounds Like Trouble
Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya
Navigating Life as a Brown Girl
Hollow Inside
Aboriginal Social Work Voices
The Homegrown City: Reclaiming the Metropolis for its Users
Intertidal
Floodlines
Start Where You Are: The Beginner’s 5k Running Guide for Women
The Age of Calamities
Kōkun: Book 1: The Girl from the West
The Good Patient
Orange Laughter
Deathly Fates
The Spaces That Make Us
The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook
The Memory Bookshop
No Place to Bury the Dead
You've Been Pooping All Wrong
The Witch Without Memory (Obsidian Throne #2)
Celestial Lights
Paradiso 17
Release Me (Shatter Me, The New Republic #2)
Making Trouble (A Good Kind of Trouble #2)
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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.
