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Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Cat Mask Boy
Episodes: The Diary of a Recovering Mad Man
Moan: Junji Ito Story Collection
Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa
Books of Mana: 180 Maori-Authored Books of Significance
The Beauty of Your Face
No Is Not a Lonely Utterance
How to Love
Political Conflict in Pakistan
The Philosophy of Jazz
Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide
Dying to Meet You: Confessions of a Funeral Director
Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think
I'll Tell You When I'm Home
How Do You Like It?: A Guide for Getting What You Want (in Bed)
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars
The Soy Milk Cookbook: Delicious & Healthy Non-Dairy Asian Recipes
Beyond Baking: Plant-based Baking for a New Era
Hispanic Star: Pedro Pascal
Simply More
An End to Suffering
Diary of a Young Doctor
Glitch Feminism
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
Race to the Bottom: Reclaiming Antiracism
Border Nation: A Story of Migration
Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia
Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Cozy Bookshops
Bittersweet
A World of Cozy Bookstores
Magically Black and Other Essays
Fire in Every Direction
Black England
Finding My Way
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
The Double Tax: How Women of Colour Are Overcharged and Underpaid
Was That Racist?
Goddess with a Thousand Faces
Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines
India in a Bowl
Family Thai: Bringing the Flavors of Thailand Home
Shh . . . Give Me a Moment
What Has Society Got to Do with my Pain?
Why Did You Buy That Drink?
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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.