Collection:
Africa
The Black History Book
The Italian
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Raybearer (Raybearer #1)
The Famished Road
Second-Class Citizen
Carefree Black Girls
Crossing the Mangrove
How Beautiful We Were
Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation
A Bookshop in Algiers
Quiet
In the Black Fantastic
Red Island House
The Gilded Ones (Deathless #1)
The Murders of Molly Southborne (Molly Southborne #1)
Iyanu: Child of Wonder (Volume 1)
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Her Name is Knight (Nena Knight #1)
Skin of the Sea
The Merciless Ones (Deathless #2)
I Am a Girl from Africa
Confident and Killing It
Transcendent Kingdom
The Little Book of Self-Healing
Kololo Hill
The Chimpanzee Whisperer
Africa in Fashion
After the Rain
Gullah Geechee Home Cooking
Seasons in Hippoland
Hopeless Kingdom
Red Dust Road
Soul Sisters
The Africa Box
History of South Africa
Freshwater
The Cult of Progress
Losing the Plot
A Wreath for Udomo
Soul of the Deep (Skin of the Sea #2)
Iyanu: Child of Wonder (Volume 2)
Mental Fight
Blood to Poison
Pilgrims Way
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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.