Collection:
Historical Fiction
Palmares
In the Upper Country
A Million to One
Embers on the Wind
The Circus Train
The Attic Child
Aphrodite and the Duke
The Immortals of Tehran
The Moon Represents my Heart
The Dance Tree
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Becoming Beatriz
The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
One-Shot Harry
Of Women and Salt
A Woman of Intelligence
Miss Aldridge Regrets
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
A Feather on the Breath of God
White Chrysanthemum
The Cuban Heiress
The House of Doors
The Weight of our Sky
Bronze Drum
The Mercies
The House of Eve
The Shadow King
The Color Purple
How We Disappeared
Remember, Mr Sharma
Queen Bee
Promise
Big Girl
Foul Lady Fortune
Banyan Moon
Brotherless Night
Four Treasures of the Sky
Fractured Soul
Paper Names
Bibliolepsy
Take My Hand
Even Though I Knew the End
Travelers Along the Way
Birth Canal
The Age of Goodbyes
Slash and Burn
All Your Children, Scattered
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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.