Collection:
2024 releases
The Hypocrite
Never Met a Duke Like You
This Book Won't Burn
Because I Love Him
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
The Weight of Blood
Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West
If Everyone Cared Enough: Her Voice Reclaimed
Norteña: Authentic Family Recipes from Northern Mexico
One of Us Knows
Dragon Rider
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories
When I open the shop
Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel
The Many Hundreds of the Scent
Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets
Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals
Godly Heathens
Under the Tamarind Tree
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
An African History of Africa
Decolonizing the Theatre Space
Calm Your Mind with Food
One Stop
The Mayor of Maxwell Street
The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World
Mural
Blackouts
Parasol Against the Axe
Room 216
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Love at Six Thousand Degrees
The Leftover Woman
All You Need is Rhythm and Grit
Why We Feel Blue When the Air is Grey
Sudden Superstar
The Showgirl and the Minister
Saving Time
Drinking with Wizards, Warriors and Dragons
The Half Known Life
Why We Remember
Confrontations
Air Conditioning
City Under One Roof
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
A Drop of Venom
The Spoiled Heart
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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.