Collection:
Literary Fiction
Summer at Mount Asama
The Last Living Cannibal
The Sisters
Salt Bones
AMITY
What Hunger
Fish Tales
What We Left Unsaid
People Like Us
The Place of Shells
Maggie: Or, A Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar
Blowfish
Great Eastern Hotel
The Road to the Salt Sea
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
The Nakano Thrift Shop
Love Forms
Shibboleth
Lush
Sakina's Kiss
A New New Me
Thousand Cranes
Call Me Ishmaelle
Long Distance
A Guardian and a Thief
The Stolen Bicycle
This Here Is Love
This Thing Called Love
Return
Notes of a Crocodile
Catalina
This Kind of Trouble
Hailstones Fell Without Rain
Yilkari: A desert suite
What Kept You?
India: A Wounded Civilization
A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl
A Mouth Full of Salt
A Carnival of Atrocities
See Friendship
The Stone Home
Loved One
Park Avenue
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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.
