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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
Both Not Half
Briefly Perfectly Human
Trails and Tribulations: The Running Adventures of Susie Chan
Braiding Sweetgrass
Surveillance State
Westlessness
We Will Not Be Saved
Travellers in the Golden Realm
The New India
Never Saw Me Coming
Micro Activism
Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir
Korean Made Easy
Hip-Hop Is History
The Bookshop Woman
The Asiri Volume 1
Is Maths Real?
It's Not Hysteria
Somewhere We Are Human
The Feminist Pacific
Transitional
Zao Fan: Breakfast of China
Brave New Words
Black Meme: A History of The Images That Make Us
Broken Heart: A True History of the Voice Referendum
All My Bicycles
Road Home
This Is a Book About Street Food
Mirror Nation
The Case for Nature
The Struggle for Taiwan
What It Takes To Heal
Quantum Supremacy
My Battle of Hastings
Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than The Life You Deserve
White Poverty
The Martyr and the Red Kimono
Human Rights: The Case for the Defence
A Day in Hong Kong: A Cantonese Cookbook
The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD
The Fallacies of Racism
Ancestral Future
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
When Cops Are Criminals
Breakthrough
May Contain Lies
The Tale of a Wall
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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.
