Highlights on her list include #1 New York Times bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans, Josephine Baker’s memoir Fearless and Free, Carla Power’s Pulitzer finalist Home, Land, Security, TIME 100 honoree Tourmaline’s Marsha, TikTok star and leadership coach John Wang’s Big Asian Energy, Minda Harts’s Right Within, Arianna Davis’s What Would Frida Do?, international bestselling novelist Michael David Lukas’s The Last Watchman of Old Cairo, Sanaë Lemoine’s New York Times Editor’s Choice The Margot Affair, NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott’s Back to Earth, and former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao’s Reset.

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She is building a list that captures a wide array of human experiences, and is drawn to edgy voice driven literary, upmarket and commercial fiction centered on complicated unique characters. Smart immersive prose written with craft, intention, and depth of feeling is sure to capture her attention. As well as themes of geographic identity, culture, and coming of age. 

Lashanda is also looking for transformative memoirs, in addition to narrative non-fiction that answers the “why” and “how” in regards to the socio-political-economic systems we are all mired in, with a clear vision of the way forward.

Her upcoming titles include Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis, Francine’s Spectacular Crash a Burn by Renee Swindle, and This Kind of Trouble by Tochi Eze.

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Tiny Reparations Books’s fiction includes the instant New York Times bestseller, #1 international bestseller, and Edgar Award finalist Portrait of a Thief and Anatomy of a Betrayal, both by Grace D. Li; Holler, Child, which was long-listed for a National Book Award, by LaToya Watkins; As You Wish by Mark Twain American Voice Award and Joyce Carol Oates Prize long-list honoree Leesa Cross-Smith; ABA Indies Introduce Pick Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis; Center for Fiction and NAACP Image Award finalist What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris; and Good Morning America Buzz Pick Gone Like Yesterday by Janelle M. Williams.

Our nonfiction includes Phoebe Robinson’s most recent bestseller Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes; Josephine Baker’s memoir Fearless and Free (for the first time in English); Magical/Realism, which was longlisted for a National Book Award and for a National Book Critics Circle Award, by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal; Great Falls, MT by comedian and bandleader on The Late Late Show with James Corden Reggie Watts; Marsha by TIME100 Honoree Tourmaline; Eight Million Ways to Happiness by New Yorker contributor Hiroko Yoda; and Big Asian Energy by TikTok star and leadership coach John Wang. 

The imprint has been praised and featured across media, including on the Today show, The Daily Show, The Drew Barrymore Show, NPR, Vulture, the Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Essence, Entertainment Weekly, InStyle, The Associated Press, and Refinery29. For details about our other imprints, visit: Dutton and Plume.

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