Collection:
West Africa
Ubuntu: Conversations with Françoise Blum
One Leg on Earth
Shine Your Eye: In Search of West Africa
No One Leaves Clean
Cursed Daughters
Necessary Fiction
Beasts of No Nation
Son of the Morning
Firstborn of the Sun
Reframing Blackness
The Tiny Things Are Heavier
My Parents' Marriage
The Road to the Salt Sea
Hail Mary
This Kind of Trouble
Harmattan Season
Birth of a Dynasty
Yeseni and the Daughter of Peace
At the Fount of Creation (Guardians of the Gods #2)
African Stories
Madame Sosostris & the Festival for the Broken-Hearted
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Sorrow Tears and Blood
Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity
Chop Chop: Cooking the Food of Nigeria
The Mirror World
The Scorpion Queen
Cursebound
Terminal Maladies
Our Sister Killjoy
So Long a Letter
Unity and Struggle
My Country, Africa
Burning Grass
They Dream In Gold
The Half-God of Rainfall
This Fiction Called Nigeria
Before We Hit the Ground
A Kind of Madness
Where the Dead Brides Gather
Slaves for Peanuts
Curandera
The Rest of You
The Silence of the Choir
The Concubine
As The Crow Flies
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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.