Artists taking part in Drawing Room's exhibition programme are invited to compile ‘reading lists’ that inform and expand the themes explored in their works. This list has been compiled for The Nakeds, a group exhibition curated by artist David Austen, looking at drawings of the body exposed. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study.
| Title | Author | Year | Selected by | ISBN | URL | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea | Yukio Mishima | David Austen | 978-0099284796 | Link | Amazon | |
| Sarah Kane: Complete Plays | Sarah Kane | David Austen | 978-0413742605 | Link | Amazon | |
| Dhalgren | Samuel R. Delany | David Austen | 978-0575090996 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Psychology of Love | Sigmund Freud | David Austen | 978-0141186030 | Link | Amazon | |
| Styles of Radical Will | Susan Sontag | David Austen | 978-0141190051 | Link | Amazon | |
| Erotism: Death & Sensuality | Georges Bataille | David Austen | 978-0872861909 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Tears of Eros | Georges Bataille | David Austen | 978-0872862227 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion | Leo Steinberg | David Austen | 978-0226771878 | Link | Amazon | |
| The World is Ever Changing | Nicolas Roeg | David Austen | 978-0571264933 | Link | Amazon | |
| Scott Walker : the Drift [Sound work] | Scott Walker | David Austen | B000EZMPEU | Link | Amazon | |
| Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom [Film 1976] | Pier Paolo Pasolini | David Austen | B004ZQJ3MG | Link | Amazon | |
| Sebastiane [Film 2001] | Derek Jarman | David Austen | B00005JI0R | Link | Amazon | |
| Bad Timing [Film 1980] | Nicolas Roeg | David Austen | B000N0WYFQ | Link | Amazon | |
| The Space of Literature | Maurice Blanchot | Enrico David | 978-0803260924 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection | Julia Kristeva | Enrico David | 978-0231053471 | Link | Amazon | |
| A Century of Modern Drawing: from the Museum of Modern art New York | Bernice Rose | Stewart Helm | 978-0714107912 | Link | Amazon | |
| Berlin: a Critical View, Ugly Realism 20-70s | I.C.A. | Stewart Helm | B0013724L2 | Link | Amazon | |
| Pontormo Drawings | Salvatores Nigro | Stewart Helm | 978-0810937178 | Link | Amazon | |
| Hayward Annual 1982 : British Drawing | Art's Council | Stewart Helm | B000RZFXBE | Link | Amazon | |
| An Expressionist in Paris: Chaim Soutine | Norman L. Kleeblatt | Stewart Helm | 978-3791319322 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Vivisector | Patric White | Stewart Helm | 978-0099324614 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Complete Set of Drawings by Max Beckmann for Goethe's "Faust II" (auction catalogue) | Sotheby's | Stewart Helm | B008LFHTHI | Link | Amazon | |
| Hayward Annual 1982 : British Drawing | Art's Council | Stewart Helm | B000RZFXBE | Link | Amazon | |
| The Vivisector | Patric White | Stewart Helm | 978-0099324614 | Link | Amazon | |
| Pasolini Requiem | Barth David Schwartz | Stewart Helm | 978-0394577449 | Link | Amazon | |
| Our Lady of the Flowers | Jene Genet | Stewart Helm | 978-0571251155 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony | Robert Calasso | Stewart Helm | 978-0099308010 | Link | Amazon | |
| Piero Di Cosimo: Fiction, Invention and Fantasia | Sharon Fermor | Stewart Helm | 978-0948462368 | Link | Amazon | |
| Journal and Drawings: 1939-1965 | Keith Vaughan | Stewart Helm | B001SRXRL8 | Link | Amazon | |
| William Blake: Catalogue of the Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | Fitzwilliam Museum | Stewart Helm | B00126AQYG | Link | Amazon | |
| Paula Modersohn-Becker: The Letters and Journals | Gunter Busch | Chantal Joffe | 978-0810116443 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | Gertrude Stein | Chantal Joffe | 978-0141185361 | Link | Amazon | |
| Two Lives Gertrude and Alice | Janet Malcolm | Chantal Joffe | 978-0300143102 | Link | Amazon | |
| Manet and the Object of Painting | Michel Foucault | Chantal Joffe | 978-1854379962 | Link | Amazon | |
| As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 | Susan Sontag | Chantal Joffe | 978-0374100766 | Link | Amazon | |
| Degas by Himself: Drawings, Paintings, Writing | Richard Kendall | Chantal Joffe | 978-0356149325 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Women | Hilton Als | Chris Ofili | 978-0374525293 | Link | Amazon | |
| Ice | Anna Kavan | Georgina Starr | 978-0720612684 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Goose of Hermogenes | Ithell Colquhoun | Georgina Starr | 978-0720611779 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Hearing Trumpet | Leonora Carrington | Georgina Starr | 978-0141187990 | Link | Amazon | |
| Bubbles (Spheres Vol. 1) | Peter Sloterdijk | Georgina Starr | 978-1584351047 | Link | Amazon | |
| Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two | Johann Wolfgang Geothe | Georgina Starr | 978-0300189698 | Link | Amazon | |
| A General Theory of Magic | Marcel Mauss | Georgina Starr | 978-0415253963 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Georgina Starr | 978-1594771736 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Sandcastle | Iris Murdoch | Georgina Starr | 978-8129114358 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Queen of Whale Cay: The Extraordinary Story of 'Joe' Carstairs, the Fastest Woman on Water | Kate Summerscale | Georgina Starr | 978-1408830512 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis and the Problems of Puberty | Helen King | Georgina Starr | 978-0415554992 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Mothers in Faust : The Myth of Time and Creativity | Harold Jantz | Georgina Starr | 978-0801803116 | Link | Amazon | |
| Mine-Haha: Or, on the Bodily Education of Young Girls | Frank Wedekind | Georgina Starr | 978-1843914556 | Link | Amazon | |
| Rivette: Texts and Interviews | Jonathan Rosenbaum | Georgina Starr | 978-0851700649 | Link | Amazon | |
| Patterns of Culture | Ruth Benedict | Georgina Starr | 978-0395500880 | Link | Amazon | |
| Surrealist Women: An International Anthology | Penelope Rosemont | Georgina Starr | 978-0292770881 | Link | Amazon | |
| Bomarzo | Alberto Ginastera | Georgina Starr | Amazon | |||
| Mythical Kings and Iguanas | Dory Previn | Georgina Starr | B00004W9H5 | Link | Amazon | |
| Wise Blood | Flannery O'Conner | Nicola Tyson | 978-0571241309 | Link | Amazon | |
| In Youth is Pleasure | Denton Welch | Nicola Tyson | 978-1878972132 | Link | Amazon | |
| Two Serious Ladies | Jane Bowles | Nicola Tyson | 978-0062283122 | Link | Amazon | |
| Life—A User's Manual | Georges Perec | Nicola Tyson | 978-0099449256 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Voice Imitator | Thomas Bernhard | Nicola Tyson | 978-0226044026 | Link | Amazon | |
| Old Masters | Thomas Bernhard | Nicola Tyson | 978-0141192710 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Pillow Book | Sei Shonagon | Nicola Tyson | 978-0140448061 | Link | Amazon |
Titles marked with an asterix * are held in the Outset Study library