Collection:
Literary Fiction
Oromay
Homeseeking
The Rest of You
In a Free State
We the Animals
Unlove Story
Disappoint Me
The Liquid Eye of a Moon
City of Night Birds
The River Between
Blue Hour
Rosarita
River East, River West
Medusa of the Roses
The New Naturals
The Fertile Earth
Silken Gazelles
Clean
Eclipse
No Small Thing
However Far Away
Memento Mori
My Beloved Life
The Beggar Student
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Kokoro
The Formidable Miss Cassidy
Deep River
Anita and Me
Daughter in Exile
The Namesake
The Bees
What I Know About You
My Name Is Gucci
Beats of the Pa‘u
Overland
Thirst
Theory & Practice
Slow Boat
Sky Full of Elephants
Hula
Quarterlife
The Coin
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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.
