Collection:
History & Culture
Sister, Outsider
Halfway Home
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
Gay Bar
This is the Canon
Astronomy: Sky Country
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming
Monumental Disruptions
We Come With this Place
The New Age of Empire
Another India
Black Women Writers at Work
War on Corruption
Of Blood and Sweat
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
Accidental Gods
Black Ghost of Empire
Tikanga
Our Work is Everywhere
Among Flowers
Honouring our Ancestors
Empireland
Master Slave Husband Wife
My Father's Brain
Waves Across the South
The Voice to Parliament Handbook
African Europeans
Free Speech
Minor Feelings
I Am Still With You
Everything You Need to Know About the Voice
All That She Carried
Deadly and Slick
Late Light
Sand Talk
Self Defense
Finding the Heart of the Nation
Unbought and Unbossed
Rise
The Queen is Dead
The Matter of Black Lives
Fermat's Last Theorem
The Good Fight
How Rights Went Wrong
Race and Reckoning
Settlers
The Yoga Manifesto
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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.