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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
Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob)
Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production
Razzle Dazzle
Self-Censorship
Decolonizing Economics
The Risk of Compressed Modernity
The Indian Civil Sphere
What is Critical Environmental Justice?
Silence of the Chagos
Hot Boy Summer
Every Word Matters: Writing to Engage the Public
Latina Superheroes: Jalisco & Santa (Volume 1)
Seventhblade
The Survivor Wants to Die at the End
The Platform: The Radical Legacy of the Polynesian Panthers
Drop Dead
My Other Heart
African Stories
Seesaw Monster
The Catch
Burning Seasons
The Reaper
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
The Notes
The Wisdom of YOLO
The Pearl of Tagai Town
The Possibility of Tenderness
Dogs of the World
A Sky of A Thousand Colours
The Self-Esteem Class
Stamford Hospital
Writ at Large
Yatra: A culinary journey across India
Red Pockets: An Offering
Sunbirth
Cosy Chill
When the Museum is Closed
If You Stayed
How to Hold Someone in Your Heart
Wildcat Dome
Dragonfruit
Flourishing Kin: Indigenous Wisdom for Collective Well-Being
The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong
The Science of Racism
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future
Island Vegan
Hollywood Blackout
They Bloom at Night
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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.
