Collection:
Sri Lanka
Gather Up Your World in One Long Breath
The Lying Guest
Brown, Female, Doctor
Return to Sri Lanka
The Winner Bakes It All
A Year of Last Things
Amma
What to Expect When You're Immigrating
Mozhi
Funny Boy
Tea and Solidarity
A Fleeting Moment in My Country
Riots I Have Known
Amnesty
My Sweet Girl
Reef
blackbirds don't mate with starlings
Milk, Spice, and Curry Leaves
Birds of Sri Lanka
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
Rambutan
Song of the Sun God
Hoppers: The Cookbook
Stay, Daughter
Brotherless Night
Our Work is Everywhere
The Saint of Bright Doors
The God of No Good
Waves Across the South
Home to Biloela
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
Untethered
Picture Perfect
Coming Through the Slaughter
Running in the Family
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Questions of Travel
A Passage North
Enlightened
Soft Side of Red
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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.
