• Common Sense About Africa (1960)
• Anatomy of Britain (1962)
• Anatomy of Britain today (1965)
• The New Anatomy of Britain (1971)
• Changing Anatomy of Britain (1982)
• The Essential Anatomy of Britain: Democracy in Crisis (1992)
• The New Europeans (1968)
• The Sovereign State of ITT (1973)
• The Seven Sisters (a study of the international oil industry) (1975)
• The Arms Bazaar (a study of the international arms trade) (1977)
• The Money Lenders (a study of international banking) (1981)
• Black Gold (about the crumbling of apartheid and the business/financial picture in South Africa) (1987)
• Company Man (a study of corporate life) (1995)
• The Authorised Biography (1999), winner of the Alan Paton Award
• The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century (2004)
• The Anatomist (2008, Politico's Publishing, 978-1842-75229-6) the autobiography of Anthony Sampson (which was prepared for publication by his wife and family)

"[Bankers] seem specially conscious of time, always aware that time is money. There is always a sense of restraint and tension. (Is it part of the connection which Freud observed between compulsive neatness, anal eroticism, and interest in money?)"