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Art | Biography & Memoir | Business | Classics | Coffee Table Books | Cookbooks & Food | Environment | Essays | Feminism | Finance | Guidebooks | Graphic Novels | Health | History & Culture | Journalism | Lifestyle | Music | Nature | Philosophy | Parenting | Politics | Pop Science | Race | Reading & Writing | Self-Help | Spirituality | Travel | True Crime
Valleyesque
Translating Myself and Others
The Third Reconstruction
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters #2)
Stolen City
Unprotected
The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost #1)
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
They Come at Knight (Nena Knight #2)
These Bodies of Water
These are the Words
Talking Strong
Surviving
Strong Female Lead
My Name is Maame
Kundo Wakes Up
The Stars Are Not Yet Bells
Showstopping Cakes
Self-Made Boys
Scout's Honor
A Quick Ting on Plantain
A Quick Ting on Black Girl Afro
A Quick Ting on Afrobeats
RecipeTin Eats: Dinner
Spin the Dawn (Blood of Stars #1)
Spice Road
Son of Sin
Queenie: Godmother of Harlem
The Other
Namwayut: We Are All One
Kurashi at Home
The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms #1)
It's a Continent
Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster
I Miss You, I Hate This
If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Lost in the Long March
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Dwellers
How Maya Got Fierce
The Heart of God
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
Direwood
Dine in Palestine
The Charmed List
Black Voices on Britain
The Birdcatcher
Big Dress Energy
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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.
Amplify started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. In the physical shop, 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, and crafting workshops, as well as 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.
Representation is important.
