Collection:
Asia
The Girl in the Mist
Barefoot Doctor
The Setting Sun
The Flowers of Buffoonery
Heart of the Sun Warrior (The Celestial Kingdom Duology #2)
Kingdom of Without
Self-Love Club
Ho Jiak: A Taste of Malaysia
Even Cats and Rice Ladles
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Somewhere in the Deep
There are No Falling Stars in China: and Other Life Lessons from a recovering Journalist
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
A Mother's Burden
The Rice Book
Life Skills for a Broken World
Marilyn and Me
Leila
The Atheist Muslim
The Power Wish
The Beijing Conspiracy
Hashim & Family
Hard Like Water
We, the Survivors
No Presents Please
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
The Girl with Seven Names
I am Malala
Unfree Speech
Remina
The Night of Legends
The Message
A Personal Matter
The Shadowglass (Bone Witch #3)
The Heart Forger (Bone Witch #2)
Primus Unleashed
Usagi Yojimbo Saga, Volume 1
Taiping Tales of Terror
Shanghai Acrobat
The Farm
First They Killed my Father
Underground
What to Expect When You're Immigrating
Once Upon a Hong Kong
Secret Rendezvous
Second Sister
A Fraction of Momentary Love
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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.