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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Scattered All Over the Earth
A Career in Books
Dead-End Memories
Bestiary
How to Read Now
Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution
The Tattoo Murder
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
Hell Screen
The Joys of Motherhood
Passing
The Prophet
Does My Body Offend You?
The Honjin Murders
If I Had Your Face
The Intersectional Environmentalist
Afternoon Raag
Odysseus Abroad
A Strange and Sublime Address
The Stormy Sea
Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki
How to Write About Africa
Chickpeas to Cook and other stories
We Were Dreamers
Exes and Oh's
Love After Love
Korean American
My Alcoholic Escape from Reality
My Lovely Skull and other Skeletons
An Admirable Point
Home to Harlem
Quicksand and Passing
Smashing Serendipity
Weasels in the Attic
Empathy
Grave Intentions
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy #1)
The Fat Lady Sings
Night Train to the Stars
The Black Jacobins
Reclaim
Fire Rush
Mine Boy
Where It Rains in Colour
Showers of Luck
Through My Window
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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.
