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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
Anupreeta Das
Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King
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Tracker
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Alexis Wright
Tracker
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Scattered
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
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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
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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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Both Not Half
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Jassa Ahluwalia
Both Not Half
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Briefly Perfectly Human
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Alua Arthur
Briefly Perfectly Human
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Trails and Tribulations: The Running Adventures of Susie Chan
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Susie Chan
Trails and Tribulations: The Running Adventures of Susie Chan
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We Will Not Be Saved
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Nemonte Nenquimo
We Will Not Be Saved
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Never Saw Me Coming
Tanya Smith
Never Saw Me Coming
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Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir
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Kishore Mahbubani
Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir
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Hip-Hop Is History
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Questlove, Ben Greenman
Hip-Hop Is History
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The Bookshop Woman
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Nanako Hanada
The Bookshop Woman
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Transitional
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Munroe Bergdorf
Transitional
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All My Bicycles
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Powerpaola
All My Bicycles
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Road Home
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Rex Ogle
Road Home
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My Battle of Hastings
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Xiaolu Guo
My Battle of Hastings
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Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than The Life You Deserve
Drew Afualo
Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than The Life You Deserve
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The Martyr and the Red Kimono
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Naoko Abe
The Martyr and the Red Kimono
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The Tale of a Wall
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Nasser Abu Srour
The Tale of a Wall
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In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story
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Ghada Karmi
In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story
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Legitimate Kid
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Aida Rodriguez
Legitimate Kid
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Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
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Tania De Rozario
Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
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A Naga Odyssey: Visier's Long Way Home
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Visier Meyasetsu Sanyü, Richard Broome
A Naga Odyssey: Visier's Long Way Home
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Mourning a Breast
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Xi Xi
Mourning a Breast
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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.
