Collection:
Products
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Council of Dolls
A History of Burning
A Person is a Prayer
A Woman is No Man
All Our Brave, Earthly Scars
All Your Children, Scattered
Amma
Banyan Moon
Bestiary
Big Jim and the White Boy
Bitter Honey
Black Cake
Build Your House Around My Body
Calling for a Blanket Dance
Can't I Go Instead
Children of Sugarcane
Children of the Alley
Chinese Fish
Cinema Love
Conjure Women
Crooked Plow
Daughters of Smoke and Fire
Deviants
Dust Child
Edenglassie
Flashlight
Floodlines
Fragile Monsters
Future Perfect
Grow Where They Fall
Happy Land
Homeseeking
House of Kwa
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House
How We Disappeared
Hula
Ibis
In the Upper Country
Infinite Country
Jazz
Keeping the House
Memphis
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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.