It’s still early in literary awards season — the winners of the Man Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature and the National Book Awards won’t be announced until later this fall — but speculation started heating up this week about who will take home the world’s most prestigious literary prizes this year.

There were the usual upsets — three of the six Man Booker finalists are Americans, to the consternation of Booker purists who argue the prize has become too Americanized. (Many prize-watchers were surprised that Colson Whitehead, whose Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning novel “The Underground Railroad” made the Booker longlist, was not among the American finalists).

There were also happy surprises, including a high number of debut novelists (the Man Booker Shortlist included three first-time novelists, and on the National Book Award’s longlist for fiction, three of the 10 authors were also publishing their debuts).

Below are the nominees for this year’s National Book Award, in four categories — Fiction, Nonfiction, Young People’s Literature and Poetry. The finalists will be announced on Oct. 4, and the winners will be recognized at a ceremoney and benefit dinner on Nov. 15 in New York City.