Collection:
Queer books
Super Model Minority
Real Life
Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
The Color Purple
Miss Major Speaks
Nothing Burns As Bright As You
One of Them
Ay, Mija!
Big Girl
Brighter than the Moon
Raven Smith's Men
A History of my Brief Body
Even Though I Knew the End
All Men Want to Know
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
The Wrong Kind of Weird
A Little Life
A Visible Man
Content Warning: Everything
All the Right Notes
Our Work is Everywhere
The Heart of Summer
The Spider and Her Demons
Nightcrawling
Kitchen
Cereus Blooms at Night
Honouring our Ancestors
You Made a Fool of Death with your Beauty
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
Moon Witch, Spider King (Dark Star Trilogy #2)
The Women Could Fly
He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor #2)
Burning My Roti
The Sex Lives of African Women
The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire #2)
Witches
Forget Me Not
The Battle Drum (The Ending Fire #2)
The Final Strife (The Ending Fire #1)
The Dos and Donuts of Love
Girls Like Girls
The Future is Disabled
Choosing Family
The City We Became (Great Cities #1)
Enclave
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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.