Collection:
Staff favs
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Rot
Kindred
Wild Seed (Patternist #1)
Against Disappearance
Yellowface
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1)
Iron Widow
Butter
rock flight
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Amma
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2)
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient #1)
The Degenerates
The Deep
The Mismatch
A Woman is No Man
The Burrow
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Fierceland
The Death of Vivek Oji
Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters #2)
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Another Day in the Colony
Hunger
Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters #3)
Breasts and Eggs
How We Disappeared
A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
River East, River West
Pizza Girl
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
What You Are Looking For is in the Library
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Oathbound (The Legendborn Cycle #3)
A Piece of Red Cloth
Persepolis (Books 1 & 2)
Natural Beauty
The Last Children of Tokyo
Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
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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.