Consider pairing The Golden Notebook with other significant twentieth-century feminist texts, such as Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, bell hooks's Feminism Is for Everybody, Audre Lorde's Sister Outsider, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, or Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.
Consider other works of Lessing's, including Martha Quest and The Grass Is Singing.