Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, Rita Dove and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the finalists for the 2016 National Book Awards.

The 22 finalists, whom the National Book Foundation announced Thursday, include two Pulitzer Prize winners, two previous National Book Award winners and a poet making her debut. The winners will be announced on Nov. 16 at a gala in New York.

This year’s Literarian Award, for “outstanding service to literature,” will be awarded to Cave Canem, a writer’s center that has helped spur the careers of celebrated black poets and whose fellows have included Robin Coste Lewis, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and Terrance Hayes. The lifetime achievement award will be presented to Robert A. Caro, author of “The Power Broker,” a biography of Robert Moses, and an ongoing multivolume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson.

Here are the finalists for fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature and poetry.

Fiction

Chris Bachelder “The Throwback Special,” (W.W. Norton), about a group of male friends who gather every year to re-enact a 1985 football game and who are confronting fatherhood and middle age.