Collection:
Race
Praise Song for the Widow
Shades of Black
The Dead are Arising
You Are Your Best Thing
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
The Undocumented Americans
Entertaining Race
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers' Edition
Black Love Matters
A Bigger Picture
Self-Care for Black Women
Luster
You Don't Know Us Negroes and other essays
Practical Reconciliation
Nga Kete Matauranga
Just Us (US edition)
This is Your Time
Raceless
Black and White
This Bridge Called my Back
The Office of Historical Corrections
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
This is Why I Resist
Iconic People of Colour
The Trayvon Generation
Inclusion Revolution
Four Hundred Souls
Black Art
Blind Spot
I Know Who Caused COVID-19
In Search of the Color Purple
Our Separate Ways
Travelling While Black
Tears We Cannot Stop
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
The Pain Gap
Fattily Ever After
The Breaks
The 1619 Project
How We Can Win
Seeking Asylum: Our Stories
Carefree Black Girls
The Purpose of Power
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire: 20 years after 9/11
A Kick in the Belly
Becoming Abolitionists
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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.