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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
Forgotten
Universality
Strange Pictures
The Passenger Seat
Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora
Pakistan: Recipes and Stories from Home Kitchens, Restaurants, and Roadside Stands
Lugma: Abundant Dishes And Stories From My Middle East
In the Kusina
Umai
Good Dirt
Half Truth
Old Soul
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City
The Inheritance
Looking for Lucie
This Immaculate Body
Palestine in a World on Fire
China: The Cookbook
This Ends in Embers (Divine Traitors #2)
The Lotus Empire (Burning Kingdoms #3)
The World After Gaza
Darkness Falls in Jakarta
Ceremony for the Nameless
Epic of Cader Idris
When No Thing Works
All She Lost
The Jade Cabinet
Beirut
Racism and ‘Free Speech’
Greater Secrets
Decolonizing Environmentalism
I Want To Talk To You
They Dream In Gold
Mammoths at the Gates (The Singing Hills Cycle #4)
Chinese Mythology
The Fall of the School for Good and Evil (PL)
The Accidental Malay
Where There Was Fire
What I Know For Sure
For the Culture
Every Arc Bends Its Radian
The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
This Arab Is Queer
Spring Garden
The Black Swan Mystery
Twenty-Four Seconds From Now
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
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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.
