Collection:
Women in Translation
The Lantern of Lost Memories
This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
A Magical Girl Retires
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise
Reservoir Bitches
We'll Prescribe You a Cat
A Woman of Pleasure
The Full Moon Coffee Shop
Yeonnam-Dong's Smiley Laundromat
Spontaneous Acts
Mina's Matchbox
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
Mourning a Breast
Brothers and Ghosts
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
The Vegetarian
Love at Six Thousand Degrees
Confrontations
Butter
The Singularity
Your Utopia
The Cheffe
Our Lady of the Nile
The Disaster Tourist
Breasts and Eggs
Crossing the Mangrove
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
The Silence of Scheherazade
Earthlings
Birth Canal
Days in the Caucasus
The Age of Goodbyes
All Men Want to Know
Idol, Burning
Things We Lost in the Fire
The Bitch
Hit Parade of Tears
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
People Like Them
Greek Lessons
What You Are Looking For is in the Library
Empty Houses
Cursed Bunny
The Premonition
Watch Us Dance
Roman Stories
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
The Forest Brims Over
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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.