Collection:
General Fiction
Backwaters
Bitter & Sweet
DallerGut Dream Department Store
American Fever
Happy
The Things We See in the Light
A Woman is No Man
You Exist Too Much
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Where the Bird Disappeared
The Centre
Questions of Travel
The Girl With the Louding Voice
Yellowface
Nervous Conditions (Nervous Conditions #1)
Central Places
The Untelling
Scary Monsters
Songs for the Dead and the Living
Concerning my Daughter
Fuccboi
Intimacies
The Last White Man
Brown Girls
All's Well
The Selfless Act of Breathing
Locks
You Were Always Mine
Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments
The Boy and the Dog
What We Kept to Ourselves
VAGABONDS!
Greta and Valdin
Tauhou
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Out of It
Botchan
The Frolic of the Beasts
Mornings in Jenin
Rattlebone
The Fetishist
A Scatter of Light
Gingerbread
Politica
No One Dies Yet
Unbury Our Dead With Song
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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.