Collection:
Pop Science
Gut: an owner's guide
The Science of Beauty
Play With Your Cat!
A Silent Fire
Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals
Calm Your Mind with Food
The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World
Why We Feel Blue When the Air is Grey
Why We Remember
Why We Die
How We Ended Racism
How Infrastructure Works: Transforming our shared systems for a changing world
When Animals Dream
The Song of the Cell
Life on a Knife’s Edge
The Next Great Migration
Decoding the World
Why We Swim
The Mental Vaccine for Covid-19: Coping With Corona
World War C
We Have No Idea
Sway
Quantum Computing
Peak Mind
What Cats Want
The Address Book
The Handshake
Sex Robots & Vegan Meat
Frequently Asked Questions About the Universe
Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity
Explaining Humans
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
This is How You Vagina
A Dead Body Never Lies
Our Symphony with Animals
The Practice of Embodying Emotions
Patient Zero
In Two Minds
Dancing is the Best Medicine
That Little Voice In Your Head
Behind Deep Blue
Just Hierarchy
Beyond Global Warming
Alien Listening
Chasing Life
Stress-Proof
The Future is Fungi
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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.