Collection:
Pop Science
The Racialized Brain: The Neurosociology of Race and Racism
The Science of Drinking
A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)
Why Did You Buy That Drink?
The Starspotter's Guide
Explaining AuDHD
Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
You Already Know: The Science of Mastering Your Intuition
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
Think Like a Mathematician
The Future of Hacking
The Whispers of Rock
Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic
Unequal: The Maths of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up
This Is Why You Dream
The Price of Life
The Language of Mathematics
Vaccine Nation
The Science of Racism
Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being
On Muscle
Dismantling the Master's Clock
A History of the World in Six Plagues
Hello Sleep
Pseudoscience
Our Brains, Our Selves
Life in Three Dimensions
Mastering AI
A Theory of Everyone
Breakthrough: The Quest for Lifesaving Medicines
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
The Serviceberry
Health: Spirit, Country and Culture
Why Machines Learn
The Tao of Cosmos
The Resilience Myth
AI Snake Oil
Breaking Bias
Nuclear is Not the Solution
Hope for Cynics
Is Maths Real?
Brave New Words
Quantum Supremacy
Breakthrough
May Contain Lies
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging
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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.