Collection:
Biography & Memoir
Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory
Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration
The Snag
Nobody Can Give You Freedom
The Woman Warrior
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
Critical Lives: Zora Neale Hurston
Daybreak in Gaza
My Vietnam, Your Vietnam
Unbroken
I'm Highly Percent Sure
Speaking My Language
Fly, Wild Swans
Brown, Female, Doctor
Find Me at the Jaffa Gate
Red Pockets: An Offering
Fire Dragon Feminism
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Terraglossia
Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
My Beautiful Sisters
The Children of Hiroshima
Down with the System
Matriarch
Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Kill 'Em and Leave
While I Have Your Attention
Broken Dreams
Aboriginal Women by Degrees
Fearless and Free
We Are Not Numbers
Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem
When I Dare to Be Powerful
The Cancer Journals
Songs of My Grandmother
Firstborn Girls
Chopping Onions on My Heart
Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage
Broken Brains
The Eyes of Gaza
Letters From Gaza
How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life
White Hibiscus
Sir Lewis: The Definitive Biography
I Am Not a Tourist
Docile
Full Circle
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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.