Collection:
Music
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age
Duet: An Artful History of Music
The Power of Music: How Music Connects Us All
The Philosophy of Jazz
Rivers Flow
The Chronicles of DOOM: Unravelling Rap's Masked Iconoclast
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production
Down with the System
Kill 'Em and Leave
Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom
Loveboat Forever
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
High and Rising
Soul-Folk
A Thousand Threads
Tupac Shakur
Hip-Hop Is History
The Hip-Hop MBA
Make Your Own Rules
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent
Becoming a Composer
The Magic Border
Conversations in Color: Exploring North American Musical Theatre
You're History
The Butterfly Effect
Redemption
House of Music
Half Blood Blues
New Kings of the World
Why Solange Matters
An Equal Music (PL)
It Was All A Dream
Alien Listening
Music is History
Vibrate Higher
Live the Lizzo Way
Why Karen Carpenter Matters
KING
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
My Sister's Big Fat Indian Wedding
12 Notes
Fingers Crossed
The Weakness in Me
Beats and Elements
Hip Hop & Hymns
Blues People
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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.