Collection:
Essays
The Book of (More) Delights
I Finally Bought Some Jordans
Disability Visibility
On the Housing Crisis
How to Tell When We Will Die
Flamboyants
Scenes of Subjection
Where We Stand
Culture and Imperialism
Mean Boys: A Personal History
The Fire Next Time
Justice in Palestine
The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act
Black Friend: Essays
Bite by Bite
The Book of Delights
Words to Sing the World Alive
The Literary Lacan
The Message: Writing and the World
Homecoming
Shapeshifting
Recognising the Stranger
Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine
Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman
Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
Somewhere We Are Human
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
When Cops Are Criminals
Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic
A View from the Stars
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging
Legitimate Kid
Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
The Architecture of Modern Empire
Die Hot with a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity
Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine
Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade
Songs on Endless Repeat
The Death of a Jaybird
Conversations with Birds
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire
For The Culture
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
The Half Known Life
Air Conditioning
The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966–2006
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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.