Our accounting of the rich harvest of fall fiction continues following last week's look at the Knopf publishing plans.

Leading the autumn author parade are Philip Roth and Richard Powers.

A new work from the 76-year-old Roth is becoming a regular occurrence. His 30th, "The Humbling," will be published in November by Houghton Mifflin ($22).

It follows last year's "Indignation," and like that novel, a man troubled by doubts is at the center. He's a popular actor in his 60s who's "lost his magic." How does he reclaim it? Written by Roth, we can be sure a woman will do the trick.

Powers follows the triumph of his 2006 "The Echo Maker," winner of the National Book Award, with "Generosity: An Enhancement" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25) in October.

Here he examines the possibility that there's a human gene for happiness. Then, imagines Powers, what might happen if it can be patented?

Here's a list of other promising titles ahead:

"Spooner" by Pete Dexter (Grand Central Publishing, $26.99). A troubled relationship between a man and his stepfather frames the plot.

"Stardust" by Joseph Kanon (Atria Books, $27.95). Historical novelist Kanon uses the Hollywood film studios as the backdrop of this post-World War II thriller.

"No Time to Wave Goodbye" by Jacquelyn Mitchard (Random House, $25). Here is the sequel to Mitchard's first novel, "The Deep End of the Ocean." It was Oprah Winfrey's first book club selection. After her subsequent novels failed to equal the attention of the first, is Mitchard hoping O will pick her again?

"Day After Night" by Anita Diamant (Simon & Schuster, $27). Based on the escape of British-held prisoners in Haifa, this novel by the author of "The Red Tent" is set on the eve of the founding of Israel.

"Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday, $26.95). The author of the popular novel "Motherless Brooklyn" indulges his interests in sci-fi and Manhattan for his eighth work.

"A Change in Altitude" by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown, $26.99). Shreve is a best-selling machine ("The Weight of Water," "The Pilot's Wife"). Her new one is set on a mountain in Kenya and its impact on a couple.

"The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood (Nan Talese, Doubleday, $26). Like Lethem, Atwood is strongly attracted to the future ("The Handmaid's Tale"). Here she works on an environmental crisis threatening Earth.

"The Swan Thieves" by Elizabeth Kostova (Little, Brown, $26.99). Her 2005 debut novel, "The Historian," was a multiple prize winner. The successor draws on the history of French Impressionist painting carried into today.

"Under the Dome" by Stephen King (Scribner, $35). It's always an event when King comes out with a new novel, so much so that his publisher is asking the outrageous price of $35. The Kingly version of a dangerous world places a dome over a New Hampshire town.

"Invisible" by Paul Auster (Holt, $25). It's a perverse love triangle, the kind only Auster ("Man in the Dark") can craft.

End note: The goal of the fall list is to enumerate the quality fiction ahead for readers, but in recognition of the low-brow genre of American publishing, here without comment, are a few sure-fire sellers:

"I, Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.99, November); "The Spire" by Richard North Patterson (Holt, $26, September); "The Christmas List" by Richard Paul Evans (Simon & Schuster, $19.95, October); and "The Last Song" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central, $24.99 September).