Collection:
Queer books
No Is Not a Lonely Utterance
Simply More
Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color
Necessary Fiction
An Unlikely Coven (Green Witch Cycle #1)
Fire in Every Direction
When They Burned the Butterfly
Blood for the Undying Throne (Bleeding Empire #2)
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Son of the Morning
Kiss Me, Maybe
Our Vicious Descent (Bittersweet Poison #2)
City of Others
Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines
Swimming Lessons
My Lady Hiraya
Boys' Love
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
If Queers Weren't Meant to Have Kids . . .
Marisol Acts the Part
All the Blood is Red
Portrait of a Shadow
Bury Your Friends
The Other Wife
Minor Black Figures
Authority: Essays on Being Right
It Rhymes with Takei
Most Ardently
Finding Prince Charming
Fierceland
On A Woman's Madness
My Dream Job
Sympathy for Wild Girls
The Sea Gives Up the Dead
The Keeper of Magical Things
Accidentally on Purpose
Lord of Ruin (The Age of Blood #2)
Gaysians
Weaving Us Together
Rebel Hearts
I'll Be Gone for Christmas
The Macabre
The Midnight Shift
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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.