Collection:
Bestsellers
Meet Me at the Convenience Store by the Sea
Celestial Lights
Freud and the Non-European
Good Good Loving
Not Without Laughter, The Ways of White Folks, The Weary Blues
When I Was Death
The Balancing Act
The Exes
Fixing Fairness
The Baby Dragon Bookshop
Trials of Hope (የተስፋ ፈተና)
Whispering Rooms
Kappa
The Firefly Crown
A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it)
The Ones Who Got Away
A Tale Unasked
Mangatopia Adorable Aliens
Devil is Fine
The Masque of Africa
Soon It Will Be Sunday
Year of the Ox
Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color
Someone Like Us
Swimming Lessons
Ashura: A Filipino Reckoning
Boys' Love
The Age of Extraction
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
A Splintering
Salt Bones
Tiwi Girl and Other Stories
Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
Norwegian Wood
The Girls Who Grew Big
Mali Bakes
The Japanese Pantry
Night of the Living Rez
Ngurra Home
The Truth According to Ember
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
Japan Now! A Japanese Language Reader
Yeseni and the Daughter of Peace
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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.