Collection:
Translated
Tales from the Heart
The Maverick Pig
Thousand Cranes
Where Everything is Music
I am a Bird from Paradise
A Lady in Kyoto
The Price of Freedom
Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven
The Stolen Bicycle
Portraits in White
This Thing Called Love
Return
Notes of a Crocodile
The Hole
Suspicion
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
A Thousand Blues
A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories
A Carnival of Atrocities
A River Dies of Thirst
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Murder at Mount Fuji
Ugliness
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
The Language of Mathematics
Welcome to Paradise
Silence of the Chagos
Seesaw Monster
When the Museum is Closed
How to Hold Someone in Your Heart
Wildcat Dome
To the Moon
A Calamity of Noble Houses
The Accidentals
Death Takes Me
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
The Naked Eye
The Story of a Single Woman
The Flame of Love
Every Moment Was You
Whoever Steals This Book
Hunger
The Dilemmas of Working Women
The Calico Cat at the Chibineko Kitchen
The Wizard's Bakery
The Running Flame
Heart Lamp
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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.