Collection:
East Asia
The Stolen Bicycle
My Life in 24 Frames per Second
Portraits in White
Search and Destroy Vol. 2
Notes of a Crocodile
The Hole
The Last Tiger
Suspicion
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
A Thousand Blues
Japan Now! A Japanese Language Reader
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir
The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting
The Scorpion and the Night Blossom (The Three Realms #1)
A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories
Real Japanese Cooking
The Courage to be Disliked
House of the Beast
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
The Stone Home
Fly, Wild Swans
Murder at Mount Fuji
The Birth of Korean Cool
The Second Chance Convenience Store
The Fiction of Flying
Joss: A History
The Risk of Compressed Modernity
My Other Heart
Seesaw Monster
Red Pockets: An Offering
The Self-Esteem Class
Sunbirth
When the Museum is Closed
How to Hold Someone in Your Heart
Wildcat Dome
To the Moon
The Naked Eye
The Story of a Single Woman
What Is Happiness?
Classic Chinese Recipes
The Children of Hiroshima
Every Moment Was You
Whoever Steals This Book
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
The Dilemmas of Working Women
When Sleeping Women Wake
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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.