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Dance To The Music Of Time Books in Order

Dance To The Music Of Time by Anthony Powell contains 13 books, published between 1951 and 2009. The first book is A Question of Upbringing (1951) and the newest is 4th Movement (2009). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
13
Published
1951–2009
Pages on record
2,688 in 11 of 13 books
Reading time
45–67 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,688 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 13 titles with a page count on record.

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Dance To The Music Of Time is Anthony Powell's sequence of English fiction, beginning with A Question of Upbringing (1951). A Buyer's Market (1952), The Acceptance World (1955), Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960) and Books Do Furnish a Room (1971) appear later. Subject headings describe the social life and customs of Great Britain and England, with Venice also listed. The catalogue holds 13 entries, including one titled 4th Movement dated 2009.

How many Dance To The Music Of Time books are there?

Dance To The Music Of Time has 13 books, released between 1951 and 2009.

Dance To The Music Of Time Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 13 Dance To The Music Of Time books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of A Buyer's Market by Anthony Powell, book 2 of the Dance To The Music Of Time series (1952)
  2. Cover of The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell, book 3 of the Dance To The Music Of Time series (1955)
  3. Cover of The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell, book 6 of the Dance To The Music Of Time series (1962)
  4. Cover of The Soldier's Art by Anthony Powell, book 8 of the Dance To The Music Of Time series (1966)
  5. Cover of Hearing Secret Harmonies by Anthony Powell, book 12 of the Dance To The Music Of Time series (1975)
  1. 1
    A Question of Upbringing1951 · 214 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1951214
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  2. 2
    A Buyer's Market1952 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1952240
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  3. 3
    The Acceptance World1955 · 214 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1955214
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  4. 4
    At Lady Molly's1957 · 218 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1957218
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  5. 5
    Casanova's Chinese Restaurant1960 · confirmed 2/4
    1960–
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  6. 6
    The Kindly Ones1962 · 256 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1962256
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  7. 7
    The Valley of Bones1964 · 284 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1964284
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  8. 8
    The Soldier's Art1966 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1966240
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  9. 9
    The Military Philosophers1968 · 250 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1968250
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  10. 10
    Books Do Furnish a Room1971 · 240 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1971240
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  11. 11
    Temporary Kings1973 · 280 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1973280
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  12. 12
    Hearing Secret Harmonies1975 · 252 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1975252
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  13. 13
    4th Movement2009 · confirmed 2/4
    2009–
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Is there a chronological order for Dance To The Music Of Time?

No separate chronological order is on record for Dance To The Music Of Time, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Dance To The Music Of Time books in order?

You should read the Dance To The Music Of Time books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Dance To The Music Of Time book also stands alone.

Where to start with Dance To The Music Of Time

Start with A Question of Upbringing (1951), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Dance To The Music Of Time book?

4th Movement (2009) is the newest Dance To The Music Of Time book released so far.

Is there a new Dance To The Music Of Time book coming?

No next Dance To The Music Of Time book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Dance To The Music Of Time at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Dance To The Music Of Time title on record dates from 2009, 17 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Dance To The Music Of Time books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
Length
2,688 pages across the 11 of 13 books with a recorded length, a median of 240 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Dance To The Music Of Time books, 5 of 13, were published in the 1960s.

What the Dance To The Music Of Time books are about

11 of the 13 Dance To The Music Of Time books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: social life and customs is tagged on 5 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Anthony Powell

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.