Collection:
2023 releases
Alone With You in the Ether
Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking
Nardurna: a First Nations Colouring Book
Waiting to be Arrested at Night
If You'll Have Me
The Decoy Girlfriend
Lifeboat (Quarterly Essay #91)
The Secret History of the Five Eyes
All That's Left Unsaid
The Boy You Always Wanted
The Hurricane Wars
My Dream Time
The Space Between Here & Now
Steady for This
The Maps of Camarines
The Forest Brims Over
Kingdom of Blood and Gold
Remember Love
She and her Cat
4 Pax to Emptiness
Sweet Braised Duck
Ada's Realm
After the Rain
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
Ana Takes Manhattan
Auntie Rita
Bitter Medicine
Better Than Fiction
Boat Life Vol. 1
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Brown Girl Dreaming
Border Crossings
Burning Roses
The Buried and the Bound
Camp Zero
The Cartographers
Chinese Fish
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Commitment
Control
A Daughter of the Samurai
The Dark Ship
Every Man a King
Dream of the Red Chamber
Everything's Fine
The Foreign Exchange
The Gift of Intensity
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
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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.