Collection:
Japan
The Mud of a Century
The Goodbye Cat
The Premonition
The North Light
The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Beautiful Star
Death in Midsummer
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Lady Joker: Volume 2
The Scarlet Alchemist (Book of Tea #1)
Gohan: Everyday Japanese Cooking
The Forest Brims Over
She and her Cat
Boat Life Vol. 1
A Daughter of the Samurai
A History of Japan in Manga
The Three-Cornered World
X-Gender Vol. 1
Scattered All Over the Earth
Dead-End Memories
The Tattoo Murder
Hell Screen
The Honjin Murders
Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki
My Alcoholic Escape from Reality
Weasels in the Attic
Night Train to the Stars
Catfish Rolling
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Coin Locker Babies
Snow Country
The Ink Dark Moon
Zen in the Garden
Honeybees and Distant Thunder
The Book of Tea
Tokyo Express
Power and Resistance
The Mill House Murders
Convenience Store Woman
The Things She Owned
Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand
The Mantis
The Power of Chōwa
Make it Japanese
Cold Enough for Snow
The Goddess Chronicle
The Siren's Lament
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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.