Collection:
Literary Fiction
What Strange Paradise
What a Mother's Love Don't Teach You
Valleyesque
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
Son of Sin
If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Lost in the Long March
Pleasantview
In the Upper Country
Mister N
Woman, Eating
The House of Rust
The Blue Bedspread
Broken Summer
All the Lovers in the Night
Age of Vice
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
After the Quake
Things Fall Apart
The Yield
Whereabouts
Our Missing Hearts
Frying Plantain
In Every Mirror She's Black
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Grand Union
Girl, Woman, Other
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #3)
Small Worlds
I'm a Fan
An Ordinary Wonder
Hell of a Book
The Albatross
A Feather on the Breath of God
The House of Doors
A Spell of Good things
Immigrant, Montana
Territory of Light
Real Life
Olga Dies Dreaming
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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.