Collection:
Products
A Home of One's Own
Big Brands Are Watching You
Caste: A Global Story
Countering Violent Extremism
Cultural Appropriation in Fashion and entertainment
Far From my Hospital Bed
For the Culture
Human?: A Lie That’s Been Killing Us Since 1788
Just Hierarchy
Kiku: The Japanese Art of Good Listening
Long Live Queer Nightlife
Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory
New Kings of the World
The Address Book
The Fallacies of Racism
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
The Spaces That Make Us
Unassimilable
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
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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.
