Collection:
Black
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
Bone Black
Between Desire and Denial
Last Dance at the Discotheque for Deviants
Do What Godmother Says
Archangels of Funk
This Night Is Ours
The Thread That Connects Us
Four Eids and a Funeral
An Academy for Liars
Colored Television
White Women
Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen
Let the Games Begin
Return to My Native Land
A Trace of Sun
Immortal Dark
We Are Hunted
Prom Babies
Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living
Black Women Always
These Heavy Black Bones
For Such a Time as This
Madness: Race and Insanity in America
Redwood Court
Silver
Brielle and Bea: Once Upon a Time
The House of Being
Briefly Perfectly Human
Black Sunlight
The Unicorn Woman
Something Kindred
Drown Me With Dreams (Sing Me To Sleep #2)
Swift River
One of Our Kind
Never Saw Me Coming
Micro Activism
Hip-Hop Is History
Daughter of the Merciful Deep
And So I Roar
The American Daughters
The Asiri Volume 1
Love Requires Chocolate
Prince of the Palisades
Invisible Son
The Fire Between High & Lo (Elements, 2)
Ride or Die
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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.