Collection:
Bestsellers
The Genealogy of Kings (Sulalat al-Salatin)
Human Rights: The Case for the Defence
Snake Talk
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection
Non-things
Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading
Black Duck
Rest Is Resistance
You're History
The Next Great Migration
Living While Black
Under a Bilari Tree I Born
South Flows the Pearl
The Mauritanian
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?
This is Your Time
This Bridge Called my Back
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
In the Wars
The Chief Witness
Days in the Caucasus
African Europeans
Brother, I'm Dying
When I Was Puerto Rican
Korean American
Hidden Figures
Black British Lives Matter
Failures of Forgiveness
Black and British: A Forgotten History
Nobody Can Give You Freedom
Tell Me Why
Manifesto Without Borders
Why We Kneel, How We Rise
Feminism for the World
It's a Continent
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Freud and the Non-European
The Balancing Act
The Japanese Pantry
We Will Rest!
Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New
Private Revolutions
He Iti te Kupu
Stride Toward Freedom
When They Call You a Terrorist
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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.