Good evening from the 61st National Book Awards. While we await who will be the winner, we got the scoop on some of the favorites.

While no one knows yet who might win, book bloggers, journalists and publishing folks had their eyes on a couple titles. Here is a list of the top three fiction books being buzzed about:

Lionel Shriver’s So Much For That, a Harper book

Nicole Krauss’s Great House, a W.W. Norton & Company book

Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel, a Coffee House Press book