Collection:
Graphic novels (non-fiction)
Run Home: A Graphic Memoir
Black Arms to Hold You Up
My Perfectly Imperfect Body
It Rhymes with Takei
Gaza in My Phone
My Life in 24 Frames per Second
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Dragon Hoops
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City
The Dissident Club
A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali
All Our Ordinary Stories
Halfway There
All My Bicycles
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali
They Called Us Enemy
Persepolis (Books 1 & 2)
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Feelings
Diego Rivera
Good Talk
Maybe An Artist: a graphic memoir
Everything is OK
Ay, Mija!
Monstrous
The Best We Could Do
In Limbo
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
Messy Roots
The High Desert
A History of Japan in Manga
X-Gender Vol. 1
My Alcoholic Escape from Reality
Power Born of Dreams
Family Style
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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.
