Collection:
Philosophy
Ubuntu: Conversations with Françoise Blum
The Korean Art of Living Well
The Spaces That Make Us
The Traveling Tree: Lessons from a Nomadic Life
Shibui: The Japanese Art of Finding Beauty in Aging
Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI
Afterthoughts: or Some Pistachios Won't Open
A Theory of Happiness
After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Hate: The Uses of a Powerful Emotion
Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Wisdom from the Heart of Japan
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
How to Love
The Philosophy of Jazz
Dying to Meet You: Confessions of a Funeral Director
Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think
Reincarnation
How to Dream
Yoshuku: The Japanese Art of Manifesting
Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Manga Version
Rice, Miso Soup, Pickles
The Power to Change
Shamanism: The Timeless Religion
Art on my Mind: Visual Politics
The Courage to be Disliked
Learning from Silence
What Is Happiness?
Every Moment Was You
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
In Defence of Leisure
The Herbal Sutra
The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes
Women Who Wear Only Themselves
Do This Before Bed
On Love
The Spirit of Hope
Dao De Jing
Indeterminate Inflorescence
Laozi's Dao De Jing
Being with Busyness
How to Listen
The Serviceberry
I Decided to Live as Me
The Tao of Cosmos
Discourses of the Elders: The Aztec Huehuetlatolli
Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
Atua Wāhine
Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide
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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.