Collection:
Syria
The Silence and the Roar
The Stone Woman (Islam Quintet #3)
The Book of Saladin (Islam Quintet #2)
The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue
It Started in Damascus
Harley Loco
Ever Since I Did Not Die
The Universe, All at Once
Selamlik
The Last Syrian
Where the Wind Calls Home
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
The Frightened Ones
Planet of Clay
Esther's Notebooks 2
Esther's Notebooks 3
I Don't Want to Talk About Home
The Book Collectors of Daraya
Foghorn Echoes
What Strange Paradise
My Road From Damascus
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph
Muzoon
Roundabout of Death
No One Prayed Over Their Graves
Ramadan Ramsey
Mister, Mister
Imad's Syrian Kitchen
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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.
