Collection:
Amplify essentials
The books that are the cornerstone of our shop.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Rot
Kindred
Wild Seed (Patternist #1)
The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1)
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
Black Convicts
All About Love
Rejection
Against Disappearance
Against the Loveless World
Minor Detail
Giovanni's Room
White Tears/Brown Scars
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1)
Enter Ghost
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1)
Dropbear
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1)
Iron Widow
Butter
Orientalism
rock flight
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Amma
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
Fledgling
Open Water
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Perfect Victims
The Deep
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2)
The Degenerates
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient #1)
Swallow the Air
The Mismatch
A Woman is No Man
Dial A For Aunties (Aunties #1)
Dawn (Lilith's Brood #1)
The Burning God (The Poppy War #3)
Fierceland
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Another Day in the Colony
Chain-Gang All-Stars
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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.