Collection:
Products
A Feather on the Breath of God
An Ordinary Wonder
Both Not Half
Coconut
Cold Enough for Snow
Confessions of a Mask
Constructing a Nervous System
Dominoes
Don't Let It Get You Down
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
Katie Goes to KL
Looking for Lucie
Passing
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
She is Haunted
Skull Water
Spontaneous Acts
The High Desert
The Hive and the Honey
The Idea of India
Uprooting
What's Mine and Yours
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Writing an Identity Not Your Own
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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.
