Collection:
East Asia
It's Okay Not to Look for the Meaning of Life
Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
The Fox Wife
Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China
Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I
The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty: A Novel
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World
Life Ceremony
The Black Lizard
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition (Asian Arguments)
The Factory
The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping
Your Utopia
The Consultant
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man
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
Even Cats and Rice Ladles
There are No Falling Stars in China: and Other Life Lessons from a recovering Journalist
A Mother's Burden
Marilyn and Me
The Power Wish
The Beijing Conspiracy
Hard Like Water
The Girl with Seven Names
Unfree Speech
Remina
The Message
A Personal Matter
Usagi Yojimbo Saga, Volume 1
Shanghai Acrobat
Underground
Once Upon a Hong Kong
Secret Rendezvous
Second Sister
The Most Dammed Country in the World
The Astonishing Colour of After
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
The Ruined Map
Room for a Stranger
The Magical Language of Others
Murakami T
Aiming High
The Forest of Stolen Girls
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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.