Collection:
History & Culture
Dismantling the Master's Clock
Latina/os in the United States
Kill 'Em and Leave
What Is Free Speech?
In Defence of Leisure
We the Pizza
The Black Utopians
The Rise and Fall of the EAST
The Revolutionary Road to Me: Identity Politics and the Western Left
Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem
Decolonizing Anthropology
Australia's Agricultural Identity - an Aboriginal yarn
Humans: A Monstrous History
Poutini
Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers
Women and Global Documentary
Ancient China
A History of the World in Six Plagues
New Geography of Innovation
The Incarcerations
Named
To Stand with Palestine
Toitū Te Whenua
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation
Cave of My Ancestors
The Anti-Racist Media Manifesto
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile
Grievance: In Fragments
Ngardi to English Dictionary
Pseudoscience
Between Two Rivers
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Dear Bi Men
The Caribbean Race Reader
Malayan Classicism
My Country, Africa
Iran's Rise and Rivalry with the US in the Middle East
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto
Forgotten
Pakistan: Recipes and Stories from Home Kitchens, Restaurants, and Roadside Stands
Mahjong: House Rules from Across the Asian Diaspora
All She Lost
For the Culture
Farmers' Protest
We Have Never Been Woke
Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling
American Dark Age
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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.