Collection:
Products
This Compulsion in Us
This Fiction Called Nigeria
This Here Flesh
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World
Timecode of a Face
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
Together
Translating Myself and Others
Travelling While Black
Trick Mirror
Twelve Words for Moss
Ugliness
Unassimilable
Uncivil Wars: Quarterly Essay 87
Unfree Speech
Unity and Struggle
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition
We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity
We Will Rise Again
Well-Read Black Girl
What Happened?
What Have You Left Behind?
What I Know For Sure
What We Owe the Water
What White People Can Do Next
What Women Want: On Desire, Power, Love and Growth
When Cops Are Criminals
When I Dare to Be Powerful
Where We Stand
Whites
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Wild Fictions
Words to Sing the World Alive
Work. Love. Body.
World of Wonders
Writ at Large
X-Gender Vol. 1
You Are Your Best Thing
You Don't Know Us Negroes and other essays
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
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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.