Collection:
Products
Anger
At Home in the World
Enlightened
Happiness Becomes You
Happiness is Overrated
How to Dream
How to Focus
How to Listen
How to Live When a Loved One Dies
How to Love
It's Okay Not to Look for the Meaning of Life
Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living
Reincarnation
Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan
The Eightfold Path
Traveling in Bardo: The Art of Living in an Impermanent World
True Love
What Is Happiness?
You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
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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.
