diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj b/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj
index 0c41b168..9179c1b8 100644
--- a/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/tasks.clj
@@ -122,10 +122,11 @@
   (let [tasks (:tasks @bb-edn)]
     (if (seq tasks)
       (let [names (keys tasks)
-            raw-names (filter symbol? names)
-            names (map str raw-names)
+            names (filter symbol? names)
+            names (map str names)
             names (remove #(str/starts-with? % "-") names)
             names (remove #(:private (get tasks (symbol %))) names)
+            names (sort names)
             longest (apply max (map count names))
             fmt (str "%1$-" longest "s")]
         (println "The following tasks are available:")
diff --git a/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj b/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj
index 68a969c3..fd19609e 100644
--- a/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj
+++ b/test/babashka/bb_edn_test.clj
@@ -90,11 +90,7 @@
                                    {:task '(+ 1 2 3)
                                     :private true}}}
     (let [res (test-utils/bb nil "tasks")]
-      (is (str/includes? res "The following tasks are available:"))
-      (is (str/includes? res "task1 task1 doc"))
-      (is (str/includes? res "task2 task2 doc"))
-      (is (not (str/includes? res "task3")))
-      (is (not (str/includes? res "task4"))))))
+      (is (= "The following tasks are available:\n\ntask1 task1 doc\ntask2 task2 doc\n" res)))))
 
 ;; TODO:
 ;; Do we want to support the same parsing as the clj CLI?