Collection:
East Asia
Nebulous Vertigo
The Menu of Happiness
Pearl City (The Phoenix Hoard #3)
Letter From Japan
Days at the Torunka Café
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
I Am a Cat
We'll Prescribe You Another Cat
Yoshuku: The Japanese Art of Manifesting
The Amberglow Candy Store
Summer at Mount Asama
Sun Tzu's Art of War: The Manga Version
Sōseki Natsume's Collected Haiku
The Essential Akutagawa
For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse
Kojiki: Fully Revised Edition
Rice, Miso Soup, Pickles
Mokonuts: The Cookbook
Never Ever After
From Memen to Mori
The Crustacean
Diary of a Cat
The Meaning of Jungkook
Bookstore Girls
The Dragon Wakes with Thunder
Break Room
The Place of Shells
Hakuda Photo Studio
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
The Gift of Empathy
The Lucky Ride
The Melancholy of Untold History
Strange Houses
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
The Nakano Thrift Shop
Swallows
Hunter
The Midnight Shift
City of Fiction
Murder in the House of Omari
The Maverick Pig
Thousand Cranes
Jasmine Tea
A Lady in Kyoto
Call Me Ishmaelle
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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.