Collection:
West Asia
Crooked Alleys
A Girl Called Rumi
Planet of Clay
The Prophet
Don't Forget Us Here
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Palestine Across Millennia
The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran
Poems that Do Not Sleep
My Father's Notebook
Esther's Notebooks 3
Sadeq Hedayat
State-Building in the Middle East and North Africa
Under the Blue
I Don't Want to Talk About Home
Critical Pedagogy and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Forty Nights
Persiana Everyday
The Book Collectors of Daraya
Song for the Missing
The Europe & West Asia Box
Darius the Great is Not Okay (Darius the Great #1)
What Have You Left Behind?
Then the Fish Swallowed Him
The Silence of Scheherazade
Pilgrim Bell
Journeys Towards Gender Equality in Islam
The Loophole
My Past is a Foreign Country
Our Women on the Ground
A Darkness at the Door (Dauntless Path #3)
Cold Nights of Childhood
Celestial Bodies
At the Breakfast Table
Bruising of Qilwa
The Stationery Shop of Tehran
The Global Merchants
Reopening Muslim Minds
The Huthi Movement in Yemen
The Island of Missing Trees
The Mismatch
Parsi
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
Aria
Foghorn Echoes
Freedom, Only Freedom
Brother Alive
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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.