Collection:
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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
Deep History: Country and Sovereignty
Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration
Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory
Three Begums: The Women Who Shaped My Life
The Sorrow of the Sea (The Nightingale and the Falcon #3)
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
Salsa Daddy
The Book of Alchemy
The Love Lyric
Cosy Creepy
Art on my Mind: Visual Politics
The Snag
Nobody Can Give You Freedom
The Love Simulation
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
Our Beautiful Boys
A Thousand Blues
The Half of It: Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience
What Kept You?
Japan Now! A Japanese Language Reader
The Arabs and the Holocaust
Arabic Folktales for Language Learners
The Boyfriend Contract
Out of Step, Into You
When Devils Sing
Salvación
Blood in the Cut
Linger
Harmattan Season
India: A Wounded Civilization
We Can Never Leave
Plus Size Player
FERMENT: A Cookbook
The Woman Warrior
Love in 280 Characters or Less
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Mapping the Interior
The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting
This Place Kills Me
The Baker's Book
Imagine: Creating Desserts with Christy Tania
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom
Critical Lives: Zora Neale Hurston
Daybreak in Gaza
After Zionism
Moon of the Crusted Snow
My Vietnam, Your Vietnam
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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.
