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The Fight Back: A Citizen's Guide to Standing Up to Dictators
The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad
Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr.
Privileged but Powerless
Dangerous Learning: The South's Long War on Black Literacy
The Forgotten Era: Nigeria Before British Rule
Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches
One Day a Cat Came to Me
Greenback Empire: Global Dollar Dominance and the New Cold War
Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation
As I Dream of You
Until We Meet Again
The Mind Electric
Welcome to Hell
The Lonely Generation: Why Our Kids Are in Crisis – and How We Can Fix It
Vern: Custodian of the Universe
The Last Girl
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Get Home Safe
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
My Old Man and Me
Modern Masala
Bake Sum
Who's Watching Shorty?
Palestine: A Short History
The Lucky Son
Peasants: Makers of the Modern World
The World and Us
Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat
How Black Music Took Over the World
The Sky Is Concave
The Cult of the Fox
Cosy Calm Sticker Therapy
The Illustrated Guide to Shinto
The Tiger Man's Daughter: A Memoir of Loss and Belonging
Cinderella: A Cultural History
Tales of Green Tea
Kimchi
I Choose My Beginning
Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain
Never Say Die: A Memoir
The Curry Bible
The Elders
No Land to Stand On: Protest, Palestine and Being Unfree in America
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead
From the Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures
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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.
Amplify started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. In the physical shop, 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, and crafting workshops, as well as 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.
Representation is important.