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The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
The Korean Vegan: Homemade
Bad B*tch in the Kitch
Soyangri Book Kitchen
Wind/Pinball
Norwegian Wood
A Wild Sheep Chase
Female Fantasy
Minor Black Figures
This is Fine
Love at First Fright
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
All the Way Around the Sun
Cosy Cheer
The Girls Who Grew Big
For No Mortal Creature
Pictures of You
The Midnight Timetable
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Make It, Don't Buy It
Perspective
Reframing Blackness
Authority: Essays on Being Right
It Rhymes with Takei
The Japanese Pantry
All the Fighting Parts
Red Threads
My Dad Fights Demons!
Mali Bakes
Black Sugarcane
Pasifika Navigators: Pasifika Student Poetry Collection
Clay Eaters
A New Dawn
This Compulsion in Us
I'm Not Lazy, I'm on Energy Saving Mode
Turning: A Swimming Memoir
Two Trees Make a Forest
Flashlight
Nebulous Vertigo
Huntsman (Hunted Kingdom #1)
Most Ardently
A Thread of Light
Showstopper
Behind Frenemy Lines
The Menu of Happiness
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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.
