Collection:
Classics
Sōseki Natsume's Collected Haiku
The Essential Akutagawa
Kojiki: Fully Revised Edition
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Sing a Black Girl’s Song
Fish Tales
Latin America Diaries
All God's Chillun Got Pride
Tales from the Heart
The Maverick Pig
Thousand Cranes
Jasmine Tea
I am a Bird from Paradise
A Lady in Kyoto
The Broken Nest
The Price of Freedom
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
Notes of a Crocodile
James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time
Suspicion
India: A Wounded Civilization
Classical Poems by Arab Women
Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature
Fly, Wild Swans
Murder at Mount Fuji
Among the Believers
The Fire in the Flint
Welcome to Paradise
The Story of a Single Woman
A Bend in the River
Half a Life
The Tale of Genji
Invisible Man
A Rage in Harlem
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dancing Home
When I Dare to Be Powerful
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
The Cancer Journals
The Black Unicorn
Another Country
If Beale Street Could Talk
Inspector Imanishi Investigates
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
Season of Migration to the North
Magic Seeds
He kupu na te maia: He kohinga ruri na Maya Angelou
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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.