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Non-fiction
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
The Balancing Act
How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories
Where's All the Community?: Aboriginal Melbourne Revisited
Shibui: The Japanese Art of Finding Beauty in Aging
Herlands: Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules
Light and Thread
Back On My Feet
The Ramadan Kitchen
A Day in Seoul
Blades of the Guardians: Volume 1
Fixing Fairness
Ai Weiwei on Censorship
Yawulyu: Art and song in Warlpiri women's ceremony
Welcome Home: Healing Trauma & Reclaiming Wholeness
In Good Taste
Nandên: Recipes from my Kurdish kitchen
Simply Donabe: Japanese One-Pot Recipes
Soomaaliya
Sáng: Recipes from a Korean Family Table
Madeleines: Simple Bakes for Every Mood
There's Rice at Home
One Pan Vietnam
Black Thoughts Matter
What We Owe the Water
Muslim Europe
Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና)
Black Arms to Hold You Up
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery
Cosy Charm
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
Indigenous Nation Building in Australia
The Black Writers' Toolbox: A Practical Guide to Writing Fiction
Racial Fictions
Nation of Strangers
Stock Photo
Theatre and Race
Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI
Bad Bad Girl
It's Okay Not to Get Along with Everyone
Afterthoughts: or Some Pistachios Won't Open
A Theory of Happiness
We Will Rise Again
Red and the Wolves: A Graphic Novel
A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)
Defending the Defenceless: Indigenous Self-Determination and Legal Services in Australia
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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.
