Collection:
Staff favs
Natural Beauty
The Last Children of Tokyo
A Burning
Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
Queenie
A Tale for the Time Being
A Clash of Steel
Bruising of Qilwa
Stone Fruit
The Hate Race
Foreign Return: On art and inhabitation
My Dear You
Quicksand
Jade and Emerald
I'm a Fan
The Hurting Kind
A Girl Like Her
Return to My Native Land
Kiss & Tell
The Trees
A Feather on the Breath of God
Brothers and Ghosts
They Called Us Enemy
Joan is Okay
We Are Not Free
In Limbo
Ophelia After All
The Hate U Give
Queenie is Working on It
Eggshell
The Honeyeater
Into the Bright Open
A Small Place
Fire Rush
The Princess Trap
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare
The Liquid Eye of a Moon
Forged by Blood
Salvation City
Desolation
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.
