Collection:
Classics
The Man Who Made Plants Write
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Wedding
Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden
The Poetry of Chuya Nakahara: Japan's Modernist Master
Not Without Laughter, The Ways of White Folks, The Weary Blues
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
The Moor's Last Sigh
The Satanic Verses
Sanshirō
Kappa
The Sea and Poison
The Book of Five Rings
Musashi: Book Three - Sun, Moon and Perfect Clarity
Musashi: Book Two - Wind and Ether
The Sultan's Sex Potions: Arab Aphrodisiacs in the Middle Ages
Justice with a Smile
Men in the Sun: and other Palestinian stories
Such Sweet Thunder
The Mahabharata
The Ramayana
The Magpie at Night
A Tale Unasked
The Enigma of Arrival
The Masque of Africa
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
Musashi: Book One - Earth, Water & Fire
Firespitter
LUHA NG BUWAYA (Crocodile's Tears)
Dugo Sa Bukang-Liwayway (Bleeding Sun)
No Man River
Grave of the Fireflies
Transfigurations
A Quiet Place
This is not a Small Voice
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
The Mystic Masseur
The Inheritance of Loss
Wind/Pinball
Norwegian Wood
A Wild Sheep Chase
I Am a Cat
Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Manga Version
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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.