Collection:
Black
Performing Postracialism
The Quarter Storm
Rosewater
Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell
So Many Beginnings
Sorry I Missed You
The Space Between Worlds
The Spite House
This Thread of Gold
We Deserve Monuments
Windward Family
Zora Books Her Happy Ever After
Annie John
The Autobiography of My Mother
Africa Risen
Drama Free
Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad
None of the Above
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy
Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution
The Joys of Motherhood
Passing
The Intersectional Environmentalist
How to Write About Africa
Home to Harlem
Quicksand and Passing
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Dark Star Trilogy #1)
The Fat Lady Sings
The Black Jacobins
Fire Rush
Mine Boy
Where It Rains in Colour
The Death of Vivek Oji
Last Summer on State Street
Glory
Star Child
Between Starshine and Clay
Influential
Tina Turner: My Love Story
Wish of the Wicked
Dawn (Lilith's Brood #1)
Wild Seed (Patternist #1)
River Sing Me Home
Haruko / Love Poems
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
Go Tell It On the Mountain
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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.