Collection:
Black
Sympathy for Wild Girls
Suckers
Now That I have Your Attention
Recipes from the American South
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Sing a Black Girl’s Song
Summer of Our Discontent
Lucid
Falling
Fish Tales
When We Ruled
People Like Us
False Idols
Lore of the Tides
Trinity
The Secret Keeper of Main Street
Ella
Wisdom of the Path
Truly
I'll Be Gone for Christmas
Midnight Rooms
Daughters of Latin America
Life's Too Short
Toni at Random
The Macabre
Augmented
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us
Love Forms
Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance
Lush
A New New Me
All God's Chillun Got Pride
Tales from the Heart
Serenity's Song
Call Your Boyfriend
The Conductors
On Starlit Shores
This Here Is Love
James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time
Blood at the Root
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
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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.