Collection:
East Asia
The Blanket Cats
Wafers
Rina
Korean Folktales
Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kindaichi Mysteries)
Revenge
The Black Box
The Vibrant Hong Kong Table
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Gold Mask
The Lantern of Lost Memories
Korea: A New History of South and North
This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
Mysterious Setting
Toward Eternity
A Magical Girl Retires
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise
Wuhan: A Documentary Novel
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
A Woman of Pleasure
Surveillance State
The Full Moon Coffee Shop
Yeonnam-Dong's Smiley Laundromat
Spontaneous Acts
Korean Made Easy
A Crane Among Wolves
The Bookshop Woman
Tongueless
Takaoka's Travels
The Real Osamu Dazai
The Hunting Gun
The Colonel and the Eunuch
Zao Fan: Breakfast of China
Mina's Matchbox
The Struggle for Taiwan
Years and Years
My Battle of Hastings
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
A Day in Hong Kong: A Cantonese Cookbook
A View from the Stars
Mourning a Breast
The Lantern and the Night Moths
The Noh Mask Murder
Love in the New Millennium
Sour Heart
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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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.