Collection:
Translated
The Barefoot Woman
Speaking and Being
This World Does Not Belong to Us
The Memory Police
Touring the Land of the Dead
Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning
Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
The Republic of False Truths
Lemon
Novelist as a Vocation
Antonio
Ghost Town
December Breeze
The Mermaid's Tale
Onigiri
Dancing in the Mosque
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
Translating Myself and Others
Kurashi at Home
Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
Newcomer
In a Land Far From Home
Lady Joker
Mister N
The Dragon Daughter and other Lin Lan Fairytales
Broken Summer
All the Lovers in the Night
The Aosawa Murders
After the Quake
The Ultimate Japanese Noodles Cookbook
Whereabouts
The Chief Witness
Monkey King: Journey to the West
Terminal Boredom
Before Your Memory Fades (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #3)
The Decagon House Murders
Territory of Light
Three Assassins
Rashōmon and other stories
Beyond the Story
Rental Person Who Does Nothing
Fractured Soul
Roundabout of Death
My Rope Artist
How Do You Live?
The Village of Eight Graves
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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.