Collection:
Products
A Thousand Threads
After the Lights Go Out
An Amerikan Family
Ay, Mija!
Black England
Blue Hour
Both Not Half
Cain Named the Animal
Colored Television
Dear Cis(gender) People
Devil is Fine
Disobedient Bodies
Dominoes
Embers on the Wind
False Idols
Fearless and Free
Give My Love to the Savages
Happiness Falls
I Have Always Been Me
Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants
Let Love Rule
Locks
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
M is for Monster
Midnight Rooms
Mirror Girls
More Myself
My Life As a Chameleon
New and Collected Hell
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
On Starlit Shores
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun
Quicksand
Remember Love
Self-Portrait in Black and White
Something Like Right
Speak, Okinawa
Sugar and Slate
Swift River
The Fraud
The High Desert
The House of Being
The Many Hundreds of the Scent
The Maurice Burton Way
The Other Half
The Viral Underclass
The Weight of Blood
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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.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, 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, crafting workshops, 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.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.