The Golden Notebook

The Golden Notebook

First edition cover
Author	Doris Lessing
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Michael Joseph
Publication date	1962
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (hardback and paperback)
ISBN	0-7181-0970-8
OCLC	595787
Dewey Decimal	823/.9/14
LC Class	PZ3.L56684 Go5 PR6023.E833

The Golden Notebook is a 1962 novel by the British writer Doris Lessing. Like her two books that followed, it enters the realm of what Margaret Drabble in The Oxford Companion to English Literature called Lessing's "inner space fiction";^{[citation needed]} her work that explores mental and societal breakdown. The novel contains anti-war and anti-Stalinist messages, an extended analysis of communism and the Communist Party in England from the 1930s to the 1950s, and an examination of the budding sexual revolution and women's liberation movements.

In 2005, TIME magazine called The Golden Notebook one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923.^[1] It has been translated into a number of other languages, including French, Polish, Italian, Swedish, Hungarian, and Hebrew.