Collection:
Products
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Of Blood and Sweat
Of Greed and Glory
Overground Railroad
Race and Reckoning
Reframing Blackness
Run (Book 1)
Say Their Names
Self Defense
Slaves for Peanuts
South to America: A Journey to Understand the Soul of a Nation
The 1619 Project
The Attic Child
The Big Payback
The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball's Forgotten Era
The Black History Book
The Black Joke
The Black Utopians
The Conductors
The Davenports
The Filling Station
The Game Changer
The Matter of Black Lives
The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings
The Philosophy of Jazz
The Queen of Sugar Hill
The Secret Keeper of Main Street
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
The Third Reconstruction
The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
The Unexpected Diva
The Wedding Gift
The World of Black Film
This Thread of Gold
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Wandering in Strange Lands
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
Women of the Harlem Renaissance
Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
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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.