His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism, Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a university text.
Novel buatannya G. yang memenangkan Booker Prize 1972, dan esaynya tentang kritikan seni, Ways of Seeing, ditulis sebagai pengantar sebuah serial BBC, seringkali digunakan sebagai teks universitas.