Collection:
Staff Reviewed Books
The Rot
Kindred
Wild Seed (Patternist #1)
The Prince Without Sorrow (Obsidian Throne #1)
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1)
Rejection
Butter
Son of the Morning
Another Day in the Colony
Toward Eternity
What You Are Looking For is in the Library
How Decent Folk Behave
Natural Beauty
Whites
Something More
The Witch Without Memory (Obsidian Throne #2)
Sisters in Yellow
The Nightmare Sequence
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Quicksand
Greedy
Two Women Living Together
Joan is Okay
Halfway There
A Girl Like Her
I'm a Fan
Good People
Chain of Ideas
Messenger Cat Café
Fire Rush
We Are Not Free
Into the Bright Open
Desi Girl
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Eggshell
Kappa
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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.
Amplify started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. In the physical shop, 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, and crafting workshops, as well as 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.
Representation is important.
