Collection:
Biography & Memoir
Memoirs from the Corner Country
Born a Crime
Fire Country
Stronger
Muddy People
A Gypsy in Auschwitz
How We Met
Vibrate Higher
Backstory
Brave New Humans
Fattily Ever After
The Turbulent Sea
Vulnerable AF
Both/And
IC3
A Consequence of Sequence
Seeking Asylum: Our Stories
Ngangk Waangening
Geisha of Gion
The Man from the Future
Punch Me Up to the Gods
Around the World in 68 Days
The Apple and the Tree
A Long Road to Justice
Why Karen Carpenter Matters
The Votive Pen
Sadeq Hedayat
Imperial Intimacies
Dying To Be Me
Becoming Abolitionists
Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation
My People's Songs
Nine Moons
Freeing my Family
So Far, So Good
We Go High
The King and I
I Don't Want to Talk About Home
Why We Kneel, How We Rise
Home in the World
Black in Blue
Dorothy Dandridge
Swan Dive
KING
Straight Up
When Breath Becomes Air
In the Wars
Raised by Wolves
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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.