Collection:
All Books
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
Bronze Drum
Blacklight
All the Sinners Bleed
Living While Black
Misfits
The Decagon House Murders
Territory of Light
Three Assassins
Real Life
Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
Dear Martin
A Nation of Women
Olga Dies Dreaming
After the Carnage
Ghost River
Unlimited Futures
Astronomy: Sky Country
Black and Blue
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming
First Nations Food Companion
Monumental Disruptions
Tell Me Why
The Old Lie
The Very Last List of Vivian Walker
We Come With this Place
The House of Eve
A Sweet Lowcountry Proposal
The Shadow King
One Jump at a Time
The Perfect Crime
Wild Fires
Love in Colour
The Color Purple
Well-Read Black Girl
The Stardust Thief (The Sandsea Trilogy #1)
The Only Good Indians
Rashōmon and other stories
Be My Baby
How We Disappeared
The New Age of Empire
The Right to Sex
You are the Medicine
Dr. No
Miss Major Speaks
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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.
