Collection:
Products
Border Nation: A Story of Migration
Braiding Sweetgrass
Breaking Bias
Breakthrough: The Quest for Lifesaving Medicines
Britons Through Negro Spectacles
Broken Heart: A True History of the Voice Referendum
Broken Threads
Buses Are A Comin'
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
By The Fire We Carry
Capitalism and Slavery
Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Caste: A Global Story
Cave of My Ancestors
Ceremony: All Our Yesterdays for Today
Chain of Ideas
China in One Village
Chopsticks or Fork?
City of Kashmir
Code Dependent
Collective Movements
Coming of Age in the War on Terror
Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I
Confucius' Courtyard
Connected History
Consumed
Conversations in Color: Exploring North American Musical Theatre
Countering Violent Extremism
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming
Courting India
Cracking the Wire During Black Lives Matter
Crip Kinship
Critical Pedagogy and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Crooked Alleys
Crude Capitalism
Culture and Imperialism
Curious Coffins and Riveting Rituals
Daring to be Free
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
Deadly and Slick
Dear Bi Men
Decolonize Drag
Decolonize Museums
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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.