Collection:
Philosophy
Hello, Higher Self
Sensual
If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy
From Imagination to Reality
The Crisis of Narration
The Half Known Life
Why We Remember
Air Conditioning
Why We Die
This Is Woman's Work
The Oxherd Boy
It's Okay Not to Look for the Meaning of Life
The Power Wish
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
Aroha
Do Better
Stride Toward Freedom
How to Live When a Loved One Dies
Confucius' Courtyard
Crystal Clear
The Little Book of Ikigai
Wise Words from Black Icons
The Way of Nagomi
Rumi's Little Book of Wisdom
The Practice of Not Thinking
Everything Must Change!
Essays in Zen Buddhism
Tikanga
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Political Philosophy in a Pandemic
The How
The Art of War
Feng Shui Modern
Anger
Rethink
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
Confident and Killing It
Tao Te Ching
The Analects
Three Minutes with Spirit
Seva
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Liberalism and its Discontents
How to Focus
Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism
Yoda Nidra Made Easy
World of Wonders
A Home of One's Own
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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.