Collection:
Japan
Murder in the House of Omari
Thousand Cranes
A Lady in Kyoto
My Life in 24 Frames per Second
Search and Destroy Vol. 2
Suspicion
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
Japan Now! A Japanese Language Reader
The Japanese Art of Pickling and Fermenting
A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories
Real Japanese Cooking
The Courage to be Disliked
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Murder at Mount Fuji
My Other Heart
Seesaw Monster
When the Museum is Closed
How to Hold Someone in Your Heart
Wildcat Dome
The Naked Eye
The Story of a Single Woman
The Children of Hiroshima
Whoever Steals This Book
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth
The Dilemmas of Working Women
Kakigori Summer
The Calico Cat at the Chibineko Kitchen
The Tale of Genji
Hunchback
The Night of Baba Yaga
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories: Scheherezade; Sleep
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line
Inspector Imanishi Investigates
Manhole Volume 2
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
The Samurai
Leviathan Volume 2
May You Have Delicious Meals
Vanishing World
Spark
One Hundred Flowers
Set My Heart on Fire
Strange Pictures
Umai
Spring Garden
The Black Swan Mystery
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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.