Collection:
Lifestyle
Letter From Japan
Welcome to Consent
Sew Chinelo
He Iti te Kupu
How to be a Creative Thinker
A Beginner's Guide to America
Green
Supreme Actresses
What Cats Want
The Dragonfly Will be the Messiah
Wild & Witchy
Keep the Receipts
The Modern Singhs
Wise Words from Black Icons
Black Skin
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Conversations with People Who Hate Me
My Pretty Brown Doll
A Little Bit of Feng Shui
Fashion Design Research (2nd edition)
MR. SLOWBOY: Portraits of the Modern Gentleman
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
Musical Truth
Tikanga
Live the Lizzo Way
Brave New Humans
Ladies, We Need to Talk
Cracking the Wire During Black Lives Matter
Save Me! (From Myself)
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
Beats and Elements
They Don't Teach This At School
The Newlyweds
The Art of Gifting Naturally
Just As I Am
A Quick Ting on Plantain
A Quick Ting on Black Girl Afro
A Quick Ting on Afrobeats
Kurashi at Home
Big Dress Energy
Collecting Moments
This is the Canon
Raven Smith's Men
Why Aren't We Talking About This?!
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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.