Collection:
Historical Fiction
Thereafter Johnnie
Capitalists Must Starve
Watershed
Island Song
Everyone Leaves
The Good Lord Bird
Song Yet Sung
Miracle at St. Anna
Dugo Sa Bukang-Liwayway (Bleeding Sun)
No Man River
The Longing
The Shaman's Circle
Grave of the Fireflies
The Last Apartment in Istanbul
All the Blood is Red
The Mystic Masseur
The Case of the Mad Doctor
Desolation
The Girls Who Grew Big
Flashlight
A Thread of Light
A God in Every Stone
Broken Verses
Bitter Honey
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
State of Emergency
Orange Wine
The Trial of Anna Thalberg
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
The Last Living Cannibal
AMITY
The Place of Shells
The Bewitching
Great Eastern Hotel
The Secret Keeper of Main Street
Midnight Rooms
City of Fiction
The Stolen Bicycle
This Here Is Love
Portraits in White
This Thing Called Love
Notes of a Crocodile
House of Monstrous Women
This Kind of Trouble
The Girls of Good Fortune
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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.