Collection:
Amplify favourites
My Dear You
A Girl Like Her
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
The Rot
Desolation
Eggshell
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Fierceland
Hunger
Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle #3)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
A Piece of Red Cloth
The Liquid Eye of a Moon
River East, River West
Theory & Practice
The Burrow
Return to My Native Land
The Degenerates
rock flight
Quicksand
Jade and Emerald
Brothers and Ghosts
The Honeyeater
Manny and the Baby
The Deep
Amma
Butter
Into the Bright Open
Forged by Blood
The Hate U Give
They Called Us Enemy
Salvation City
Born Into This
Shanghai Acrobat
Laurinda
Revenge
Persepolis (Books 1 & 2)
A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
Nudibranch
Land of Big Numbers
Danged Black Thing
Breasts and Eggs
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Crossfire (Noughts & Crosses #5)
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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.