Collection:
2022 Releases
Tremors in the Blood
Call Me Chef, Dammit!
Peace is a Practice
Silence is a Sense
The Power of Voice
Amboy
Meet Cute Diary
The Kindest Lie
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
Nanny Needed
Dancing in the Mosque
The Commonwealth of Cricket
Dance Your Dance
Chasing Failure
Caul Baby
Charming as a Verb
America on Fire
American Royalty
Viral Justice
Monsters Born and Made
Queen of Myth and Monsters
Reclaim the Stars
Letter to Petya Dubarova
Cain Named the Animal
Zarifa
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Without Warning and Only Sometimes
The Virago Book Of Witches
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
Who's Loving You
What I Cook When Nobody's Watching
The Way You Make Me Feel
Valleyesque
Translating Myself and Others
Unprotected
These Bodies of Water
These are the Words
Surviving
Strong Female Lead
Kundo Wakes Up
Scout's Honor
A Quick Ting on Plantain
A Quick Ting on Black Girl Afro
A Quick Ting on Afrobeats
Kurashi at Home
Lost in the Long March
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
How Maya Got Fierce
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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.