Collection:
Iran
Iran and the Revolution: A History
No God but Us
The Long War on Iran: New Events, Old Questions
The Economic Modernisation of Iran, 1953-1968
The Ayatollah's Gaze: A Memoir of the Forbidden and the Fabulous
After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Persian Mythology
Desolation
Triumph and Despair: In Search of Iran's Islamic Republic
Persiana Easy
The Evin Prison Bakers' Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes
I am a Bird from Paradise
The Sorrow of the Sea (The Nightingale and the Falcon #3)
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of our Kitchen
Liquid: A Love Story
The Nights are Quiet in Tehran
The Persians
Iran's Rise and Rivalry with the US in the Middle East
Medusa of the Roses
The Lion Women of Tehran
Zan: Stories
The Blood Dimmed Tide (The Nightingale and the Falcon #2)
What Iranians Want
In the Streets of Tehran
Iran
Hafiz's Little Book of Life
Hyper
Persepolis (Books 1 & 2)
Daughters of Smoke and Fire
Man of my Time
Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius the Great #2)
Rumi's Little Book of Wisdom
Crooked Alleys
A Girl Called Rumi
The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran
My Father's Notebook
Sadeq Hedayat
Forty Nights
Persiana Everyday
Darius the Great is Not Okay (Darius the Great #1)
Then the Fish Swallowed Him
Pilgrim Bell
Journeys Towards Gender Equality in Islam
Bruising of Qilwa
The Stationery Shop of Tehran
The Mismatch
Parsi
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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.