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Folk Remedy: Book 1
The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang
Worry Medicine
My Perfectly Imperfect Body
First Nations Writing
The Overthinker's Guide to Making Decisions
The Thing About Falling
The Ex-Boyfriend's Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee
Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
Walking with Your Spirit Totem Animals
Japanese Comfort Food
Silk Roads: A Flavour Odyssey with Recipes from Baku to Beijing
The Myth of the Asian Century
The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination
The Korean Vegan: Homemade
You Already Know: The Science of Mastering Your Intuition
Offline Humans
Bad B*tch in the Kitch
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
Cosy Cheer
Make It, Don't Buy It
Perspective
Reframing Blackness
Authority: Essays on Being Right
It Rhymes with Takei
The Japanese Pantry
My Dad Fights Demons!
Red Threads
Mali Bakes
A New Dawn
This Compulsion in Us
I'm Not Lazy, I'm on Energy Saving Mode
Turning: A Swimming Memoir
Two Trees Make a Forest
Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety
Noticing: How we Attend to the World and Each Other
Letter From Japan
Portrait of an Island on Fire
Think Like a Mathematician
The Future of Hacking
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Somebody is Walking on Your Grave
Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train
Engaged Compassion
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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.