Collection:
Products
I Look Forward to Hearing from You
I Love My Stupid Life
I Need Art, Reality Isn't Enough
I Think They Love You
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
If My Words Had Wings
In Limbo
Island Affair (Keys to Love #1)
It's Not Hysteria
It's Not Just You
Katabasis
Liar, Dreamer, Thief
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health
Madness: Race and Insanity in America
Majak
Making a Scene
Maybe I Don't Belong Here
Mister Miracle
More Happy Than Not
My Alcoholic Escape from Reality
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On the Ravine
People Change
Pizza Girl
Post-Traumatic
Queenie
Right Where I Left You
Rosewater
Shoko's Smile
Skim
Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet
Starfish
Starling Days
Summer Bird Blue
Tapestry of the Mind and Other Stories
Tell Me How to Be
Tell Me Why
The Anxiety Antidote
The Band
The Birdcatcher
The Cartographers
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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.