Afternoon Men (1931) is the first published novel by the English writer Anthony Powell. In its characters and themes it anticipates some of the ground Powell would cover in A Dance to the Music of Time. (Wikipedia)

Venusberg was published in 1932, and it is set in an unidentified Baltic country which draws clearly on Powell's experiences in Finland and Estonia. Some see the novel as part of the Ruritanian tradition (cf. The Prisoner of Zenda), perhaps a modernist pastiche of the form.  (Wikipedia)

From a View to a Death (1933) is Powell's third novel. It combines comedy of manners with Powell’s usual interest in the subtleties of British 20th-century society in a bitterly funny narrative. Here, Powell begins to write in the mode that he would perfect in A Dance to the Music of Time. (Wikipedia)

Agents and Patients is the fourth novel by the English writer Anthony Powell. It combines two of the aspects of 1930s life, film and psychoanalysis. In what Powell himself has acknowledged is a roman a clef of sorts, a comically critical eye is cast across entre deux guerres society and its often self-indulgent, usually unsatisfied quest for contentment. (Wikipedia)

What's Become of Waring (1939) is Powell's fifth novel, his final novel of the 1930s, and the only one not published by his first employer and publisher, Duckworth. Published in 1939, Powell's book was overshadowed by international events, limiting sales. Nonetheless, it marks a significant step in Powell's development, anticipating his masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, via the introduction of the self-effacing first-person narrator. The title of the book is also the first line of the poem "Waring" by Robert Browning. 

The first novel  Powell published following the completion of his epic A Dance to the Music of Time, O, How the Wheel Becomes It! (1983) fulfills perhaps every author’s fantasy as it skewers a conceited, lazy, and dishonest critic. A writer who avoids serving in World War II and veers in and out of marriage, G. F. H. Shadbold ultimately falls victim to the title’s spinning—and righteous—emblem of chance. Sophisticated and a bit cruel, Wheel’s tale of posthumous vengeance is, nonetheless, irresistible. (Chicago University Press)

Ostensibly a novel about gossip on a cruise ship, The Fisher King (1986) is much more: a highly stylized narrative infused with Greek mythology, legend, and satire. (Chicago University Press)