Collection:
Classics
Rhode Island Red (Nanette Hayes Mystery #1)
In a Land Far From Home
Lady Joker
Giovanni's Room
Things Fall Apart
Krik? Krak!
Pounamu Pounamu
The Conjure-Man Dies
The End of History and the Last Man
Monkey King: Journey to the West
Sister, Outsider
And Still I Rise
White Chrysanthemum
The Decagon House Murders
Territory of Light
A Nation of Women
The Color Purple
Rashōmon and other stories
How Do You Live?
Bibliolepsy
20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
The Village of Eight Graves
I Went to See My Father
Once Were Warriors
Potiki
Among Flowers
The Forty Rules of Love
Kitchen
Cereus Blooms at Night
Macunaíma
The Devil's Flute Murders
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed #1)
Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Sula
Calypso in London
Golden Age
Tangi
Black Skin, White Masks
Nipponia Nippon
Nails and Eyes
Freedom Song
A New World
The Immortals
Real Time
Mullumbimby
Killing Darcy
Hard Yards
A Past Unearthed (Returns of the Condor Heroes vol. 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.