Collection:
Products
A Brief History of Protest Art
A Little Devil in America
A Quick Ting on Afrobeats
A Quick Ting on Plantain
A Sitting in St. James
A Taste of Power
Abolition for the People
Across the Tracks
African Icons
All That She Carried
America on Fire
American Dark Age
An Amerikan Family
An Autobiography
And We Rise
Another Man in the Street
Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Before 13th
Black and White
Black Arms to Hold You Up
Black Art
Black British Lives Matter
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Black Convicts
Black England
Black Meme: A History of The Images That Make Us
Britons Through Negro Spectacles
Buses Are A Comin'
Daring to be Free
Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
Flamboyants
For All Time
Giving a Damn
Glitch Feminism
Hidden Figures
High and Rising
Hollywood Blackout
How the Word is Passed
In the Upper Country
Incomparable World
Let Us March On
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age
Lose Your Mother
Madness: Race and Insanity in America
Making the Revolution Global
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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.