Collection:
Literary Fiction
Bitter Orange Tree
Pomegranate and Fig
The Office of Historical Corrections
Klara and the Sun
Where the Fruit Falls
A Million Aunties
Tell Me How to Be
Dele Weds Destiny
The Committed (The Sympathizer #2)
Herbert
Hope & Glory
Planet of Clay
Three Novels
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
White Teeth
The Fish Girl
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Diary of a Film
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Those Bones Are Not My Child
Swallow the Air
Monster in the Middle
The Italian
The Burnished Sun
People From My Neighbourhood
The Golden House
Midnight's Children
You People
The Famished Road
Palace of the Peacock
My Father's Notebook
Untold Night and Day
Crossing the Mangrove
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Opium Prince
The Black Cathedral
The Romantics
If I Survive You
Red Island House
The Kite Runner
How to Pronounce Knife
The Sellout
The Box Man
The Secrets Between Us
Never Let Me Go
Sojourn
Braised Pork
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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.