Collection:
Black
The Art of Opposition
Haunting the Black Air
On Witness and Respair
Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Our Lives and Why We Should Care
FInd My Way Down to You
The Risk It Takes to Bloom
Malcolm in the Desert
Reality TV for Snobs
Collected Poetry: 1968–1998
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
The Other America
The American Dream
The Siren
Die For Me
Natives of My Person
Flyboy in the Buttermilk
Crimson in Quietus
Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy
Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches
Black Girls Don't Cry
Our Sister's Keeper
The Box
Vern: Custodian of the Universe
How Long 'Til Black Future Month?
GREEN OF ALL HEADS
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
A Mastery of Monsters
Who's Watching Shorty?
Sparrow on the Rooftop
Splendour
How Black Music Took Over the World
The Genie Game
Plastic, Prism, Void: Part One
Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain
The Romance Rewind
Hawk & Sparrow
Breakout
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead
Feminism in Africa: Gender, Knowledge and Resistance
Mahalia Jackson, Moving On Up a Little Higher
Survivor (Patternist #5)
Take What You Can
The Disappearers
Linden Hills
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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.