Collection:
Products
Vegan Soulicious: Plant-Based Island Cooking
Vibrate Higher
Viral Justice
Vixen: NYC, Volume One
Vulnerable AF
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Africa: Scrambling for a New Africa
Wahala
Waiting for the Waters to Rise
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Walk Me to the Distance
Walking on Cowrie Shells
Wandering in Strange Lands
Was That Racist?
Wash Day Diaries
Washington Black
Water Baby
Watershed
Ways of Sunlight
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
We Are Hunted
We Are Not Like Them
We Are Not Yet Equal
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
We Deserve Monuments
We Don't Need Permission
We Find Our Way
We Go High
We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition
We Have Everything We Need To Start Again
We Have Never Been Woke
We Lie Here
We Need New Names
We Need to Talk About Money
We Rip the World Apart
We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity
We the Pizza
We Will Rest!
Well-Read Black Girl
Wench
West Winds
What a Time to be Alone
What Happened to You?
What I Know For Sure
What is Black Art?
What It Takes To Heal
What We Found in Hallelujah
What White People Can Do Next
What Would Frida Do?
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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.