Collection:
Classics
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
The Prophet
Black No More
Monster
Those Bones Are Not My Child
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
The Art of War
Midnight's Children
Minty Alley
The Famished Road
The Salt Eaters
Second-Class Citizen
Finding My Voice
Palace of the Peacock
Sōseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition
Prisna Volume 2
Crossing the Mangrove
The Bolivian Diary
Britons Through Negro Spectacles
Drumsticks (Nanette Hayes Mystery #3)
Coq au Vin Nanette Hayes Mystery #2)
The Box Man
Never Let Me Go
A Small Place
The Remains of the Day
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Bhagavad Gita
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed #2)
Corregidora
The Bluest Eye
Song of Solomon
Beloved
A House for Mr Biswas
Tao Te Ching
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The Analects
Of Our Spiritual Strivings
Notes of a Native Son
A Wreath for Udomo
The Inugami Curse
The Ways of White Folks
Prisna Volume 1
Spring Snow
Keisha The Sket
No Pain Like This Body
Maud Martha
Michel the Giant
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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.