Collection:
Biography & Memoir
Dreamer
Sidesplitter
Emotional Female
Kill the Black One First
Good Talk
After the Rain
I Am a Girl from Africa
Wandering in Strange Lands
The Sword and the Shield
We Are Still Here
Sonny Bill Williams
Be a Triangle
The Chimpanzee Whisperer
Real Life, Real Love
The Pursuit of Porsha
Buses Are A Comin'
Red Dust Road
See No Stranger
Sherpa
Who Am I, Again?
Fingers Crossed
Losing the Plot
Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits
Maybe An Artist: a graphic memoir
Just Sayin'
Timecode of a Face
Everything is True
The Naked Don't Fear the Water
Becoming Kim Jong Un
His Name is George Floyd
This Monk Wears Heels
Hip Hop & Hymns
How to Be a Bad Muslim
A Black Boy at Eton
Unknown
Michel the Giant
Am I Black Enough For You?
The Boy Who Never Gave Up
Made in China
Desi Girl
Native Country of the Heart
My Past is a Foreign Country
Happy Together
Revolutionary Women
Black is the Body
A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
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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.