Collection:
2022 Releases
Wild & Witchy
The Modern Singhs
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Conversations with People Who Hate Me
My Pretty Brown Doll
A Little Bit of Feng Shui
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
Musical Truth
Cracking the Wire During Black Lives Matter
Save Me! (From Myself)
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
Beats and Elements
The Newlyweds
The Art of Gifting Naturally
A Quick Ting on Plantain
A Quick Ting on Black Girl Afro
A Quick Ting on Afrobeats
Kurashi at Home
Big Dress Energy
This is the Canon
Inflamed
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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.
