Collection:
Politics
Praying to the West
No, You Shut Up
Betraying Big Brother
Race Against Time
A Fleeting Moment in My Country
The Psycho-Cultural Underpinnings of Everyday Fascism
Surrender, White People!
Fortune's Fool
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
This is Your Time
Black and White
Just Hierarchy
China Unbound
Crooked Alleys
Everything Must Change!
Formation
I Know Who Caused COVID-19
Jokowi and the New Indonesia
The Struggle for India's Soul
Tears We Cannot Stop
Population Shock
Can You See Me Now?
What Were We Thinking
Both/And
Revolution and Counterrevolution in China
How We Can Win
The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran
Seeking Asylum: Our Stories
Outraged
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Poverty and the Unequal Society in Hong Kong
The Apple and the Tree
Freedom
The Purpose of Power
The Sum of Us
Rise of the Extreme Right
Uncivil Wars: Quarterly Essay 87
The Devil You Know
Malaysian Son
Elite Capture
Has China Won?
Then the Fish Swallowed Him
How Many More Women?
Decolonial Marxism
Time's Monster
Mistaken Identity
Gwangju Uprising
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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.