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The Twisted Chain
Jason Gurney
The Twisted Chain
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Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Sly Stone
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
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The Road is Good
Uzo Aduba
The Road is Good
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Mean Boys: A Personal History
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Geoffrey Mak
Mean Boys: A Personal History
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
T Kira Madden
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
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Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs
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Jordan Stephens
Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs
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When The Bulbul Stopped Singing
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Raja Shehadeh
When The Bulbul Stopped Singing
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Memories of Distant Mountains
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Orhan Pamuk
Memories of Distant Mountains
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Master of Me
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Keke Palmer
Master of Me
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Uncanny: The Origins of Fear
Junji Ito
Uncanny: The Origins of Fear
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Bigger: A Literary Life
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Trudier Harris
Bigger: A Literary Life
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All Our Ordinary Stories
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Teresa Wong
All Our Ordinary Stories
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Stranger in My Own Land
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Fida Jiryis
Stranger in My Own Land
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Shattered
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Hanif Kureishi
Shattered
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Comfort in Darkness
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Rickson Gracie
Comfort in Darkness
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Whaea Blue
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Talia Marshall
Whaea Blue
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An Amerikan Family
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Santi Elijah Holley
An Amerikan Family
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I Saw Ramallah
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Mourid Barghouti
I Saw Ramallah
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Fragments against My Ruin: A Life
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Farrukh Dhondy
Fragments against My Ruin: A Life
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A Woman Like Me
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Diane Abbott
A Woman Like Me
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No Name in the Street
James Baldwin
No Name in the Street
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Small by Small
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Dr Ike Anya
Small by Small
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Becoming a Matriarch
Helen Knott
Becoming a Matriarch
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Person Unlimited
Dean Atta
Person Unlimited
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Rage
Lester Fabian Brathwaite
Rage
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The Light We Give
Simran Jeet Singh
The Light We Give
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The Maurice Burton Way
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Maurice Burton, Paul Jones
The Maurice Burton Way
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A Thousand Threads
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Neneh Cherry
A Thousand Threads
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red helicopter—a parable for our times
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James Rhee
red helicopter—a parable for our times
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Ever Since I Did Not Die
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Ramy Al-Asheq, Levi Thompson, Isis Nusair
Ever Since I Did Not Die
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Shades of Me
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Mel Brown
Shades of Me
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Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King
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Anupreeta Das
Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King
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Tracker
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Alexis Wright
Tracker
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Scattered
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Aamna Mohdin
Scattered
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Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
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Avi Shlaim
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
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Long Yarn Short
Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts
Long Yarn Short
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Inshallah United
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Nooruddean Choudry
Inshallah United
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Tupac Shakur
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Staci Robinson
Tupac Shakur
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Dear Cis(gender) People
Kenny Ethan Jones
Dear Cis(gender) People
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Remembering Che
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Aleida March
Remembering Che
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Daughter of the Dragon
Yunte Huang
Daughter of the Dragon
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Bone Black
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bell hooks
Bone Black
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Horse Barbie
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Geena Rocero
Horse Barbie
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Cactus Pear For My Beloved
Samah Sabawi
Cactus Pear For My Beloved
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These Heavy Black Bones
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Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell
These Heavy Black Bones
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The House of Being
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Natasha Trethewey
The House of Being
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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.
