Collection:
Translated
First Person Singular
Tale of Genji: The Manga Edition
Cult X
Bitter Orange Tree
Rumi's Little Book of Wisdom
In the Roar of the Machine
Blind Spot
Herbert
Pebbles, Eggs, and the Fence
Sergius Seeks Bacchus
Three Novels
Waiting for the Waters to Rise
it seems that i'm depressed
Phenotypes
Happy Stories, Mostly
The Immune Mystery
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Confessions
Winter in Sokcho
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
The Creative Gene
Death Notice
The Redemption of Time
Shoko's Smile
Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
The Italian
Selected Poems
The Last Children of Tokyo
People From My Neighbourhood
Poems that Do Not Sleep
Esther's Notebooks 2
My Father's Notebook
Sōseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition
Prisna Volume 2
Esther's Notebooks 3
Untold Night and Day
The Dog of Tithwal
Crossing the Mangrove
A Bookshop in Algiers
The Black Cathedral
Nine Moons
Fate (Death Notice #2)
The Box Man
The Membranes
The Last Quarter of the Moon
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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.