Collection:
2025 releases
Salsa Daddy
The Book of Alchemy
The Love Lyric
Cosy Creepy
Art on my Mind: Visual Politics
The Snag
Nobody Can Give You Freedom
Our Beautiful Boys
A Thousand Blues
The Half of It: Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience
What Kept You?
Japan Now! A Japanese Language Reader
The Arabs and the Holocaust
Arabic Folktales for Language Learners
Blood in the Cut
Salvación
Out of Step, Into You
The Boyfriend Contract
When Devils Sing
Linger
Harmattan Season
Mr. Fox
India: A Wounded Civilization
We Can Never Leave
Plus Size Player
Ready to Score
FERMENT: A Cookbook
The Woman Warrior
Love in 280 Characters or Less
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Mapping the Interior
The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting
This Place Kills Me
The Baker's Book
Imagine: Creating Desserts with Christy Tania
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom
Daybreak in Gaza
Kiku: The Japanese Art of Good Listening
A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl
A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories
Classical Poems by Arab Women
Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature
A Mouth Full of Salt
You Are Here
The Great Betrayal
Real Japanese Cooking
A Carnival of Atrocities
A River Dies of Thirst
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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.