Collection:
Japan
Best Wishes from the Full Moon Coffee Shop
Grave of the Fireflies
The Samurai Detectives: Volume 1
The Bells of Nagasaki
A Quiet Place
Sympathy Tower Tokyo
The Man Who Died Seven Times
The Woman Dies
Murder at the Black Cat Cafe (Detective Kindaichi Mysteries)
With Love from the Morisaki Bookshop
My Grandfather, the Master Detective
The Wisdom of Ancient Japan
The Ex-Boyfriend's Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee
Japanese Comfort Food
The Neverending Book
Wind/Pinball
Norwegian Wood
A Wild Sheep Chase
Super-Frog Saves Tokyo
The Japanese Pantry
Red Threads
Flashlight
The Menu of Happiness
Letter From Japan
Days at the Torunka Café
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
I Am a Cat
We'll Prescribe You Another Cat
Yoshuku: The Japanese Art of Manifesting
The Amberglow Candy Store
Summer at Mount Asama
Sōseki Natsume's Collected Haiku
The Essential Akutagawa
Kojiki: Fully Revised Edition
Rice, Miso Soup, Pickles
Mokonuts: The Cookbook
From Memen to Mori
Diary of a Cat
Bookstore Girls
The Place of Shells
Blowfish
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
The Lucky Ride
Strange Houses
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
The Nakano Thrift Shop
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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.