Honorable mentions

Randy Alcorn: If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil (Multnomah)

Jonathan Bean: Race & Liberty in America (University Press of Kentucky and The Independent Institute)

Anthony Bradley: Liberating Black Theology (Crossway)

Michael Card: A Better Freedom: Finding Life as Slaves of Christ (IVP)

Angelo Codevilla: Advice to War Presidents (Basic)

Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert: When Helping Hurts (Moody)

William Dembski: The End of Christianity (B&H)

Daniel Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, and Jeffry Morrison, eds.: The Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life (U. of Notre Dame Press, 2009)

David Faber: Munich, 1938 (Simon & Schuster)

Anthony Flint: Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Random House)

Patrick Garry: Conservatism Redefined: A Creed for the Poor and Disadvantaged (Encounter)

Peter Greer and Phil Smith: The Poor Will Be Glad (Zondervan)

David Hall: Calvin in the Public Square (P&R)

Steven Hayward: The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989 (Crown Forum)

Fred Kaplan: 1959: The Year Everything Changed (Wiley)

Timothy Keller: Counterfeit Gods (Dutton)

Gregory Koukl: Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions (Zondervan)

Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, and Roberta Green Ahmanson, eds.: Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion (Oxford University Press)

Alister McGrath: Heresy: A History of Defending the Truth (HarperOne)

Stephen C. Meyer: Signature in the Cell (HarperOne)

Darrow Miller: LifeWork: A Biblical Theology for What You Do Every Day (YWAM)

Russell Moore: Adopted for Life (Crossway)

Norman Podhoretz: Why Are Jews Liberals? (Doubleday)

Robert Reilly: The Closing of the Muslim Mind (ISI)

Jean-François Revel: Last Exit to Utopia (Encounter)

Jay Richards: Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (HarperOne, 2009)

Thomas Sowell: The Housing Boom and Bust (Basic)

Rodney Stark: God's Battalions: The Case for the Crusades (HarperOne, 2009)

Gregg A. Ten Elshof: I Told Me So: Self-Deception and the Christian Life (Eerdmans)

Bradley Watson: Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence (ISI)