Collection:
East Asia
Water Moon
The Snow Ghost
The Rainbow
Tales of the Kyoto Ghost Story Priest
Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Hell Screen: The Manga Edition
Dress History of Korea
The Last Tsar
Your Neighbour's Table
Manhole Volume 1
Leviathan Volume 1
River East, River West
The Rainfall Market
Uncanny: The Origins of Fear
The African Samurai
Eclipse
More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery
A Night on the Galactic Railway: Manga Edition
The Chibineko Kitchen
Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store
K-Drama School
The Beggar Student
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
I Decided to Live as Me
Hotel Lucky Seven
Deep River
How to Let Things Go
Mind Your Manners
Love in the Big City
My Name Is Gucci
The Trunk
Halfway There
The Black Orb
Slow Boat
Walking Practice
Tokyo These Days, Vol. 2
A Song to Drown Rivers
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
Blood of the Old Kings (Bleeding Empire #1)
Marigold Mind Laundry
Goodnight Tokyo
Mornings With My Cat Mii
At the Edge of Empire
The State's Sexuality
Search and Destroy Vol. 1
Before We Forget Kindness (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #5)
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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.