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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
Why We Travel
Before We Hit the Ground
Their Monstrous Hearts
The Life of Herod the Great
The Unexpected Diva
Forest of Noise: Poems
Overdrive
The Baby Dragon Cafe
Unassimilable
The Cooking of Books
Letter From Birmingham Jail
The Starlight Heir (Starkeeper #1)
Six Days in Bombay
Love Betrayal
The Witch of Wol Sin Lake
Watch Me (Shatter Me, The New Republic #1)
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
Kafka on the Shore
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Comedic Timing
I Am Not Jessica Chen
A Good Kind of Trouble
Love Grudge
Immortal
The Day of the Roaring
An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included)
Invisible Helix
The Book of (More) Delights
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
House of Bone and Rain
The Lotus Shoes
The Convenience Store by the Sea
Modern Divination (Spells for Life #1)
Honeysuckle and Bone
Call Me Home
Red Dust Running
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
I Am Nannertgarrook
Return to Sri Lanka
Schoolgirl
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
Sand-Catcher
GUMAA: The Beginning of Her
Tokyo Swindlers
Onigiri Rice & Miso Soup: The Perfect Pairing
The Dissident Club
The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti
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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.
