Collection:
Indigenous / First Nations
Purple Threads
The Window Seat
Unbranded
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Holocaust Island
Meet Me at the Intersection
Two Sisters
The Upwelling
Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare
Against Disappearance
The Night Watchman
Dropbear
Right Story, Wrong Story
The White Girl
Paris Dreaming
Greta and Valdin
Tauhou
A Kind of Shelter
Blood Matters
Mountains Made of Glass
Calling for a Blanket Dance
Borderland
Harvest Lingo
Kuracca
Robert Runs
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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.
