Collection:
Black
House of the Rising Sun
Backtalker
Brielle and Bea: Project Fairytale
The Message: Writing and the World (PL)
Counternarratives (PL)
All the Blues in the Sky
Sister of Mine
The South African Cookbook
The Heirs
African Psycho
Lonely Crowds
Black Thought Matters: Africana Philosophy and Freedom
Year of the Mer
Narrative Practices for Resilience and Hope
Transcendent: A Memoir
Faith in Disguise
We Are Still in the Fort: Poems
Devil of the Deep
Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control and How We Can Take It Back
Cool Machine
MARSHA: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson
The Princess Trap
The Bridge Back to You
Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism
Counternarratives
Dominion
About to Fall Apart
The Colour of Home
The Great Wherever
She Drinks the Light
The Body
Notes to a Black Woman
Black Intellectuals and Black Society
Unread
A Dance of Burning Blades (The Invoker #3)
Radical Justice: Building the World We Need
Unsafe
Queenie is Working on It
Black as Diamond
The Wilderness
They All Fall in Love at the End
Lessons in Falling (Hall Beck University)
Lessons In Faking (Hall Beck University)
The Sovereign (Magic of the Lost #3)
Sit with Me: A No-BS Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation
The Shadow Carver (Inspector Henley #4)
Time-Tripping Over You
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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.