Collection:
YA contemporary/general fiction
A Good Kind of Trouble
Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School
Something More
The Holiday Switch
Gay the Pray Away
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow
Weaving Us Together
Does My Head Look Big in This?
The White Guy Dies First
The Boy from the Mish
The Luis Ortega Survival Club
I Am Not Jessica Chen
Hollow Fires
Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens
Kiss & Tell
With the Fire on High
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
This Place Kills Me
Halfway There
Confetti Realms
All My Rage
Ophelia After All
Good Young Men
Cat Mask Boy
Lunar New Year Love Story
We Are Totally Normal
Loveboat Reunion (Loveboat #2)
I Am Not Starfire
I'm Not Dying With You Tonight
Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat #1)
Himawari House
This Place is Still Beautiful
The Marvelous
We Didn't Think it Through
You've Reached Sam
No Filter and Other Lies
A Scatter of Light
Making Trouble (A Good Kind of Trouble #2)
Forever & Ever
The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang
Red Threads
You Started It
Fitting Indian
Dragon Hoops
The Other Side of Tomorrow
Skim
Djeliya
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
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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.