Collection:
East Asia
Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking
Waiting to be Arrested at Night
The Space Between Here & Now
The Forest Brims Over
She and her Cat
4 Pax to Emptiness
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
Boat Life Vol. 1
Chinese Fish
A Daughter of the Samurai
Ghost Girl, Banana
The Gift of Intensity
Golden Lotus
A History of Japan in Manga
Hospital
Party of One
Please Look After Mother
Peach Blossom Spring
Stir Crazy
The Three-Cornered World
Violets
The Man With the Compound Eyes
X-Gender Vol. 1
The Mermaid from Jeju
Scattered All Over the Earth
Dead-End Memories
Bestiary
The Tattoo Murder
Hell Screen
The Honjin Murders
If I Had Your Face
Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki
We Were Dreamers
My Alcoholic Escape from Reality
Weasels in the Attic
Night Train to the Stars
Catfish Rolling
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Coin Locker Babies
Whale
Snow Country
Owlish
The Old Woman with the Knife
The Ink Dark Moon
Radical
Red Memory
Zen in the Garden
We Uyghurs Have No Say
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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.