Collection:
Bestsellers
African Europeans
Black British Lives Matter
Nobody Can Give You Freedom
Why We Kneel, How We Rise
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Fire Dragon Feminism
The Caribbean Race Reader
Writing an Identity Not Your Own
We Will Rest!
The Fallacies of Racism
Screen Deep: How film and TV can solve racism and save the world
Forged by Blood
Stride Toward Freedom
When They Call You a Terrorist
The World Doesn't Require You
Black Love Matters
Raceless
Four Hundred Souls
Red Island House
Black Women Writers at Work
Deadly and Slick
The Diversity Gap
The Man Who Lived Underground
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism
South to America: A Journey to Understand the Soul of a Nation
American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism
Theatre and Race
The Big Payback
The Power of Bridging: How to Build a World Where We All Belong
Where We Stand
The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act
How We Ended Racism
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Across the Tracks
Everyone Versus Racism
A Bigger Picture
Iconic People of Colour
We Don't Need Permission
The Devil You Know
Under the Skin
White Freedom
Living While Black
After Black Lives Matter
Everything You Need to Know About the Voice
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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.