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Starry Night, Blurry Dreams
I Need Art, Reality Isn't Enough
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Funny Ethnics
The Melancholy of Summer
A Trail of Crab Tracks
Your Love Is Not Good
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
Roman Stories
Dauntless
Flying the Coop (The Dreambird Chronicles #2)
Of Light and Shadow
Twice as Perfect
When I Was Puerto Rican
The Gilded Years
America Made Me A Black Man
Accidentally in Love
Uprooting
Anxiety is Your Superpower
Rule of the Aurora King (Artefacts of Ouranos #2)
Lady Joker: Volume 2
More Fiya
Self Defense
Year of the Tiger
Bad Diaspora Poems
The Three Musketeers
How It Feels To Find Yourself
Let Us Descend
The Library of Broken Worlds
American Whitelash
Viva Desserts
Bake Me A Cat
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
Wash Day Diaries
The Lovers
On the Ravine
The Genome Defense
Finding the Heart of the Nation
The Cats We Meet Along the Way
Be Not Afraid of Love
The Archer
A Joyful Life
Untethered
Afterglow
The Woman in the Library
Can I Pet Your Dog?
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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.
