Collection:
South East Asia
Alter Ego
The Malay Cook: Everyday Malaysian recipes from Grandma's kitchen to mine
The Indonesian Vegetarian Table
A History of the Thai Chinese
Celestial Lights
The Light Between Us
Welcome Home: Healing Trauma & Reclaiming Wholeness
The Serpent Called Mercy
Annah, Infinite
Home
Early Mornings at the Laksa Cafe
The Elsewhere Express
A Day in Penang: A Malaysian Cookbook
How to Love
Apple and Knife
Dying to Meet You: Confessions of a Funeral Director
The Sad Part Was
Vietnam Now! A Vietnamese Language Reader
Roadkill for Beginners
Flinch & Air
Going Home
bright sorrow
When They Burned the Butterfly
Here for a Good Time
City of Others
Chronically Online
Meant to be in Manila
Stories From The Islands
LUHA NG BUWAYA (Crocodile's Tears)
Dugo Sa Bukang-Liwayway (Bleeding Sun)
Tapestry of the Mind and Other Stories
Swimming Lessons
My Lady Hiraya
No Man River
Adorable
The Longing
The Shaman's Circle
Merdeka Generation Groovers and Other Stories
In Safe Hands
Ashura: A Filipino Reckoning
Boys' Love
We're Not Safe Here
Reincarnation
How to Dream
Lanna: Recipes from Northern Thailand & beyond
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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.