“In a perfect world,” write the authors of Troublesome Science: The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race, “there would be no need for another book about science and race.” And yet, the dangerous belief that humans are naturally divided into biological races persists. The science books in this list teach us to understand and respect human diversity, while providing histories of the idea of race and critiquing racial essentialism. They highlight how scientific tools like classification, genetics, and even contemporary implicit bias studies have been misused to create master narratives of race that must be dismantled in the service of both good science and racial justice.