Collection:
Biography & Memoir
Zarifa
Without Warning and Only Sometimes
Unprotected
These Bodies of Water
Surviving
Namwayut: We Are All One
My Road From Damascus
Maybe I Don't Belong Here
More Myself
The Fear-Fighter Manual
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
At Home in the World: A Memoir
Meshi
Love Language
The Chief Witness
The Go-Between
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Aftershocks
Dear Senthuran
Gay Bar
The Hate Race
Crying in H Mart
Misfits
Black and Blue
Tell Me Why
We Come With this Place
Be My Baby
Miss Major Speaks
One of Them
Beyond the Story
Rental Person Who Does Nothing
Ay, Mija!
In the Shadow of the Mountain
Muzoon
Stay, Daughter
Monstrous
War on Corruption
Reaching Through Time
The Shape of Dust
Raven Smith's Men
The Last Daughter
Ordinary Notes
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
What My Bones Know
The Best We Could Do
Finding Me
Self-Portrait in Black and White
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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.