Collection:
Staff favs
Queenie
A Burning
A Clash of Steel
My Dear You
Bruising of Qilwa
The Hate Race
Laurinda
All's Well
Return to My Native Land
Quicksand
Jade and Emerald
Kiss & Tell
A Tale for the Time Being
The Hurting Kind
A Girl Like Her
They Called Us Enemy
Joan is Okay
The Trees
In Limbo
Edenglassie
Ophelia After All
Brothers and Ghosts
The Honeyeater
Into the Bright Open
A Small Place
I'm a Fan
A Feather on the Breath of God
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Eggshell
We Are Not Free
Fire Rush
Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare
Forged by Blood
Salvation City
Desolation
The Liquid Eye of a Moon
Manny and the Baby
Dead-End Memories
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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.
