Collection:
Black
Bad Feminist
The Poet X
Clap When You Land
Red at the Bone
Wandering in Strange Lands
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2)
Transcendent Kingdom
Corregidora
An American Marriage
The Sword and the Shield
The Bluest Eye
Song of Solomon
This Poison Heart
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
The Little Book of Self-Healing
Reproduction
Zero O'Clock
Why We Fly
Black Girl Unlimited
How the Word is Passed
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Chimpanzee Whisperer
Half-Blown Rose
Real Life, Real Love
The Pursuit of Porsha
Shattered Midnight (The Mirror #2)
Nobody's Magic
Illogical
1000 Coils of Fear
Yesterday is History
Africa in Fashion
After the Rain
Batter Royale
You Can Do It
12 Notes
A Brief History of Protest Art
Cuts Both Ways
Hopeless Kingdom
Only on the Weekends
Friday Black
We Lie Here
The Disordered Cosmos
Do You Take This Man
Black Star
Buses Are A Comin'
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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.