Collection:
Women in Translation
The Woman Dies
Soyangri Book Kitchen
The Midnight Timetable
I'm Not Lazy, I'm on Energy Saving Mode
Somebody is Walking on Your Grave
We'll Prescribe You Another Cat
Elevator in Sai Gon
Diary of a Cat
The Crustacean
Bookstore Girls
Break Room
The Place of Shells
Hakuda Photo Studio
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
The Nakano Thrift Shop
Portraits in White
Notes of a Crocodile
The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories
A Carnival of Atrocities
Murder at Mount Fuji
Ugliness
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
Silence of the Chagos
How to Hold Someone in Your Heart
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 Dilemmas of Working Women
The Running Flame
Heart Lamp
Hunchback
Fearless and Free
Afropea: A Post-Western and Post-Racist Utopia
The Night of Baba Yaga
The Book of Disappearance
Counterattacks at Thirty
The War Against Women
Soft Burial
We Do Not Part
The White Book
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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.