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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
The Watkins Book of African Folklore
Maya in Multicolor
Liquid: A Love Story
O Sinners!
Cat's People
Boustany: A celebration of vegetables from my Palestine
The Blood Phoenix
Pride and Prejudices: queer lives and the law
What Is Free Speech?
Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town
Maori Millionaire
Not Your Average Jo
Hunchback
Dancing Home
Broken Dreams
Aboriginal Women by Degrees
High Functioning: Overcome Your Hidden Depression and Reclaim Your Joy
Keep Love
Fearless and Free
In Defence of Leisure
The Black Utopians
Lucha of the Night Forest
Sweet Potato Soul: Vegan Vibes
Sweet
We the Pizza
Umma: A Korean Mom's Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family Recipes
We Are Not Numbers
In the Face of Death We Are Equal
Afropea: A Post-Western and Post-Racist Utopia
The Rise and Fall of the EAST
The Revolutionary Road to Me: Identity Politics and the Western Left
Decolonizing Anthropology
Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem
Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective
Roti
When I Dare to Be Powerful
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
The Cancer Journals
The Black Unicorn
Another Country
If Beale Street Could Talk
I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call
Damien Ike and the Fallen House of Draven
The Summer Guests (Martini Club #2)
The Night of Baba Yaga
Songs of My Grandmother
How to Love Better
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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.
