Collection:
History & Culture
Between Two Rivers
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Dear Bi Men
The Caribbean Race Reader
Malayan Classicism
My Country, Africa
Iran's Rise and Rivalry with the US in the Middle East
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto
Forgotten
Pakistan: Recipes and Stories from Home Kitchens, Restaurants, and Roadside Stands
Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora
All She Lost
For the Culture
Farmers' Protest
We Have Never Been Woke
Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling
American Dark Age
This Fiction Called Nigeria
Mau Moko: The World of Maori Tattoo
Mastering AI
Why We Travel
Are Prisons Obsolete?
An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not Included)
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
Return to Sri Lanka
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
The Philosophy of Curry
Slaves for Peanuts
Land Back
The Food of Bharat
The Islamic Moses
A Theory of Everyone
The Burning Earth
Race and Entertainment
Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender Identity
Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom
How to Lose a Country
Scenes of Subjection
Breakthrough: The Quest for Lifesaving Medicines
The Politics of Sorrow
The Fourth Invasion
Where We Stand
Whose Language Is English?
Undisciplined
The Prince Who Beat the Empire
Liberating Abortion
Culture and Imperialism
Poor Artists
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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.