Collection:
Japan
The Meiji Guillotine Murders
The Tatami Time Machine Blues
No Longer Human
Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1
Butter
The Doctor of Hiroshima
Shinto: The Kami Spirit World of Japan
It's Okay Not to Look for the Meaning of Life
Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I
Life Ceremony
The Black Lizard
The Factory
The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man
The Setting Sun
The Flowers of Buffoonery
Even Cats and Rice Ladles
The Power Wish
Remina
A Personal Matter
Usagi Yojimbo Saga, Volume 1
Underground
Secret Rendezvous
The Ruined Map
Murakami T
Aiming High
Sensor
What Cats Want
Venus in the Blind Spot
The Dragonfly Will be the Messiah
Starting Point: 1979 - 1996
Usagi Yojimbo Saga, Volume 2
Colorful
Turning Point: 1997 - 2008
The Reason I Jump
Strange Tales from Japan
The Old Capital
And Then
The Wrong Goodbye
Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection
Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese
Bullet Train
The Little Book of Ikigai
The Way of Nagomi
Breasts and Eggs
A Beginner's Guide to Kintsugi
Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories
First Person Singular
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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.