She is the author of Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano, El lector de tabaquería (in English: El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader). Tinajero is the editor of Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXIand is currently co-editing Technology and Culture in Twentieth Century Mexico. Her last book, Kokoro, testimonio de una mexicana en Japón is forthcoming.