Collection:
Classic fiction
Purple Threads
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
No Longer Human
The Buried Giant
Imago (Lilith's Brood #3)
Midnight's Children
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
The Color Purple
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
The Pleasure of Thinking
The Window Seat
The Ark Sakura
I Am a Cat
If Beale Street Could Talk
Mazin Grace
Incomparable World
The Bone People
The Swan Book
I Went to See My Father
Beautiful Star
Tales from the Heart
Waiting for the Rain
A Different Drummer
The Black Tulip
The Old Capital
Crossing the Mangrove
Corregidora
The Master Key
Cold Nights of Childhood
Death on Gokumon Island
Rhode Island Red (Nanette Hayes Mystery #1)
The Village of Eight Graves
Tokyo Express
Black Teacher
A Quiet Place
The Essential Akutagawa
Thirst for Love
This Earth, My Brother
Phoenix Fled
The Dancing Face
Cousins (film tie-in)
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
A House for Mr Biswas
The Ways of White Folks
Prisna Volume 1
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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.