2014 was a great year in Christian non-fiction, and while I doubt I saw every noteworthy title (who can?), I did come across 53 books this year that caught my attention. Here now is the list I’ll be using to select my favorite books of the year — an unenviable task:

• Alex Chediak, Preparing Your Teens for College: Faith, Friends, Finances, and Much More (Tyndale)
• Andy Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing Toward Christlikeness (Ambassador)
• C.S. Lewis and David C. Downing, editor, The Pilgrim’s Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition (Eerdmans)
• Carolyn McCulley and Nora Shank, The Measure of Success: Uncovering the Biblical Perspective on Women, Work, and the Home (B&H)
• Chris Sinkinson, Time Travel to the Old Testament: An Essential Companion for the Christian Explorer (P&R)
• Christopher Ash, Job: The Wisdom of the Cross (Crossway)
• Dane Ortlund, Edwards on the Christian Life: Alive to the Beauty of God (Crossway)
• Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones, PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace (Zondervan)
• David Helm, The Big Picture Family Devotional (Crossway)
• David Platt and Tony Merida, Exalting Jesus in Galatians (Holman)
• David Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-love of God Reorients Our World (Crossway)
• Donald Macleod, Christ Crucified: Understanding the Atonement (IVP)
• Drew Dyck, Yawning at Tigers: You Can’t Tame God, So Stop Trying (Thomas Nelson)
• Duane Garrett, A Commentary on Exodus (Kregel)
• ESV Reader’s Bible (Crossway)
• G.K. Beale and Benjamin Gladd, Hidden But Now Revealed: A Biblical Theology of Mystery (IVP)
• G.K. Beale and Mitchell Kim, God Dwells Among Us: Expanding Eden to the Ends of the Earth (IVP)
• Gloria Furman, Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full: Gospel Meditations for Busy Moms (Crossway)
• Hannah Anderson, Made for More: An Invitation to Live in God’s Image (Moody)
• Ian and Larissa Murphy, Eight Twenty Eight: When Love Didn’t Give Up (B&H)
• James Hamilton, Exalting Jesus in Ezra-Nehemiah (Holman)
• James K. A. Smith, How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor (Eerdmans)
• Jared Wilson, The Storytelling God: Seeing the Glory of Jesus in His Parables (Crossway)
• Jared Wilson, The Wonder-Working God: Seeing the Glory of Jesus in His Miracles (Crossway)
• Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith (IVP)
• John Calvin and Robert White (translator), The Institutes of the Christian Religion, 1541 edition (Banner of Truth)
• John Goldingay, The Theology of the Book of Isaiah (IVP)
• John Goldingay, Isaiah 56–66: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary (T&T Clark)
• John Piper, Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis (Crossway)
• Joseph W. Smith III, Sex and Violence in the Bible: A Survey of Explicit Content in the Holy Book (P&R)
• Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More — Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist (Thomas Nelson)
• Kevin DeYoung, Taking God At His Word: Why the Bible Is Knowable, Necessary, and Enough, and What That Means for You and Me (Crossway)
• Kevin Vanhoozer, Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine (WJK)
• Kyle Strobel and Jamin Goggin, Beloved Dust: Drawing Close to God by Discovering the Truth About Yourself (Thomas Nelson)
• Lincoln Harvey, A Brief Theology of Sport (Cascade)
• Mark Seifrid, The Second Letter to the Corinthians (Eerdmans)
• Matt Perman, What’s Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done (Zondervan)
• Michael Horton, Calvin on the Christian Life: Glorifying and Enjoying God Forever (Crossway)
• Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Zondervan)
• Michael Reeves, Christ Our Life (Paternoster; UK only)
• Mike Cosper, The Stories We Tell: How TV and Movies Long for and Echo the Truth (Crossway)
• Nabeel Qureshi, Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity (Zondervan)
• Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies: A Daily Gospel Devotional (Crossway)
• Peter Mead, Pleased to Dwell: A Biblical Introduction to the Incarnation (Christian Focus)
• Peter Sanlon, Augustine’s Theology of Preaching (Fortress)
• Ray Ortlund Jr., The Gospel: How the Church Portrays the Beauty of Christ (Crossway)
• Robert Reilly, Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything (Ignatius)
• Stephen Westerholm, Justification Reconsidered: Rethinking A Pauline Theme (Eerdmans)
• Steve Timmis and Christopher de la Hoyde, In Christ: In Him Together for the World (Christian Focus)
• Thomas Kidd, George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father (Yale)
• Tim Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (Dutton)
• Vern Poythress, Chance and the Sovereignty of God: A God-Centered Approach to Probability and Random Events (Crossway), free download here
• Zack Eswine, Recovering Eden: The Gospel According to Ecclesiastes (P&R)