Amplify essentials

The books that are the cornerstone of our shop.

Clear all
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This cover image
REVIEWED
Omar El Akkad

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

$32.99
$32.99
The Rot
REVIEWED
Evelyn Araluen

The Rot

$24.99
$24.99
Kindred
REVIEWED
Octavia E. Butler

Kindred

$22.99
$22.99
Wild Seed (Patternist #1)
BOOK CLUB PICK REVIEWED
Octavia E. Butler

Wild Seed (Patternist #1)

$22.99
$22.99
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
R.F. Kuang

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence

$24.99
$24.99
The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1)
R.F. Kuang

The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1)

$22.99
$22.99
All About Love
bell hooks

All About Love

From $27.99
From $27.99
Book cover image
Santilla Chingaipe

Black Convicts

$34.99
$34.99
Book cover of 'Rejection' by Tony Tulathimutte with a black-based gradient background and yellow text.
BOOK CLUB PICK REVIEWED
Tony Tulathimutte

Rejection

$22.99
$22.99
Dropbear
Evelyn Araluen

Dropbear

$24.99
$24.99
Against Disappearance
Leah Jing McIntosh, Adolfo Aranjuez

Against Disappearance

$24.99
$24.99
Against the Loveless World
Susan Abulhawa

Against the Loveless World

$22.99
$22.99
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room

From $16.99
From $16.99
Book cover of 'White Tears, Brown Scars' with white and black text on an orange background
Ruby Hamad

White Tears/Brown Scars

$34.99
$34.99
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli

Minor Detail

$24.99
$24.99
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
REVIEWED
Malinda Lo

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

$19.99
$19.99
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1)
Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1)

$22.99
$22.99
Enter Ghost
Isabella Hammad

Enter Ghost

$24.99
$24.99
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1)
REVIEWED
Tracy Deonn

Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1)

$24.99
$24.99
Book cover image
Edward W. Said

Orientalism

$26.99
$26.99
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1)
Talia Hibbert

Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1)

$22.99
$22.99
Book cover of Cannon by Lee Lai. Illustration of a person wearing an apron with text on a red and black background
REVIEWED
Lee Lai

Cannon

$39.95
$39.95
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao

Iron Widow

$19.99
$19.99
Bunny
Mona Awad

Bunny

From $22.99
From $22.99
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
N. K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)

$22.99
$22.99
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson

Open Water

$24.99
$24.99
Book cover image
REVIEWED
Asako Yuzuki

Butter

$32.99
$32.99
Fledgling
Octavia E. Butler

Fledgling

$22.99
$22.99
Mother Mary Comes to Me
BOOK CLUB PICK
Arundhati Roy

Mother Mary Comes to Me

$26.99
$26.99
rock flight
Hasib Hourani

rock flight

$27.00
$27.00
Amma
REVIEWED
Saraid de Silva

Amma

$24.99
$24.99
Book cover image
Percival Everett

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

$22.99
$22.99
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Angela Y. Davis

Freedom is a Constant Struggle

$26.99
$26.99
Perfect Victims
BOOK CLUB PICK
Mohammed El-Kurd

Perfect Victims

$27.99
$27.99
Another Day in the Colony
REVIEWED
Chelsea Watego

Another Day in the Colony

$34.99
$34.99
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2)
R.F. Kuang

The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2)

$22.99
$22.99
The Degenerates
Raeden Richardson

The Degenerates

$34.99
$34.99
Book cover image
Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes

The Deep

$22.99
$22.99
Swallow the Air
Tara June Winch

Swallow the Air

$19.99
$19.99
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient #1)
Helen Hoang

The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient #1)

$24.99
$24.99
A Woman is No Man
Etaf Rum

A Woman is No Man

$19.99
$19.99
Fierceland
REVIEWED
Omar Musa

Fierceland

$34.99
$34.99
Dawn (Lilith's Brood #1)
Octavia E. Butler

Dawn (Lilith's Brood #1)

$22.99
$22.99
Dial A For Aunties (Aunties #1)
Jesse Q Sutanto

Dial A For Aunties (Aunties #1)

$19.99
$19.99
The Mismatch
Sara Jafari

The Mismatch

$19.99
$19.99
The Burning God (The Poppy War #3)
R.F. Kuang

The Burning God (The Poppy War #3)

$22.99
$22.99
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Chain-Gang All-Stars

$24.99
$24.99
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, Beth Ritchie and Gina Dent

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

$26.99
$26.99
A photo of a bookshop wall, with art on te left and 7 floating shelves filled with books.
Read your way

Looking for something super specific?

Have a scroll through our tag directory to help direct your search and bring you to curated collections. They're grouped by subgenres, identity markers, and more!

 See our directory

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.

Learn more