Collection:
Biography & Memoir
Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir
Think You'll Be Happy
How To Say Babylon
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent
Sugar and Slate
The Night Parade
The Atheist Muslim
I Am Not Your Baby Mother
Barely Functional Adult
You're History
Welcome Home
Life on a Knife’s Edge
Walking Through Fire
The Girl with Seven Names
They Called Us Enemy
I am Malala
A Question of Colour
Shanghai Acrobat
First They Killed my Father
What to Expect When You're Immigrating
Once Upon a Hong Kong
Majak
A Quantum Life
Bachar Houli
Born Fighter
Memorial Drive
The Louder I Will Sing
The Butterfly Effect
Persepolis (Books 1 & 2)
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
All Boys Aren't Blue
A Man Called Horse
Forced Out
Every Hill Got a Story
We Are Displaced
Coming of Age in the War on Terror
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
The Magical Language of Others
Pop Song
House of Music
Run (Book 1)
Murakami T
Aiming High
The Beauty in Breaking
Under a Bilari Tree I Born
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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.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, 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, crafting workshops, 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.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.