Collection:
Historical Fiction
That Reminds Me
Celestial Bodies
At the Breakfast Table
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams
The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1)
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor #1)
The Stationery Shop of Tehran
Lapvona
Fragile Monsters
Names of the Women
Rejection
The Garden of Evening Mists
Children of Sugarcane
The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
Jo & Laurie
The Fortune Men
Death on Gokumon Island
Aria
The Republic of False Truths
The Shadows of Men (Wyndham and Banerjee #5)
Foghorn Echoes
December Breeze
The Davenports
Victory City
Nubia: The Awakening
The Good Muslim
Song of the Sun God
Swimming Back to Trout River
We Are Not Free
A Sitting in St. James
The Kindest Lie
The Light Always Breaks
By Her Own Design
Middle Passage
Wildblood
What Souls Are Made Of
What a Mother's Love Don't Teach You
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
The Stars Are Not Yet Bells
Queenie: Godmother of Harlem
Lost in the Long March
The Birdcatcher
The Ballad of Black Tom
Redwood and Wildfire
The Righteous (The Beautiful #3)
An Ocean Apart
Our Violent Ends (These Violent Delights #2)
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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.