📚 Cocktails

Mixed drinks: the recipes, the bars that made them, and the literature of the proper glass.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject cocktails in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Joy of Cooking	Irma S. Rombauer	1931	67
	The Bartender's Guide	Jerry Thomas	1862	62
	The Savoy cocktail book	Harry Craddock	1930	17
	Hors d'ouvres and canapés	James Beard	1940	16
	Bartending for dummies	Ray Foley	1997	11
	Old Mr. Boston deluxe official bartender's guide.	Leo Cotton	1936	10
	American bar	Charles Schumann	1995	8
	Vogue cocktails	Henry McNulty	1982	7
	The bartender's bible	Gary Regan	1991	7
	101 Sangrias and Pitcher Drinks	Kim Haasarud	2008	7
	Prosecco Made Me Do It	Amy Zavatto	2017	7
	The complete bartender	Robyn M. Feller	1990	6
	Cool Cocktails	Ben Reed	2000	6
	101 blender drinks	Kim Haasarud	2010	6
	Tequila mockingbird	Tim Federle	2013	6
	Bartenders Standard Manual	Fred Powell	1971	5
	The Pocket Idiot Guide to Bartending	Alan Axelrod	1998	5
	Smoothies & juices	Christine Ambridge	2002	5
	Tequila Made Me Do It	Ruby Taylor	2018	5
	Straight Up or On the Rocks	William Grimes	1993	4
	The complete idiot's guide to mixing drinks	Alan Axelrod	1997	4
	Finger Food	Elsa Petersen-Schepelern	1999	4
	The Big Book of Cocktails	Brian Lucas	2003	4
	500 cocktails	Wendy Sweetser	2008	4
	Kiddie Cocktails	Derek Yaniger	2014	4
	The Periodic Table of Cocktails	Emma Stokes	2015	4
	Stock, Broth, and Bowl	Jonathan Bender	2015	4
	Playboy's Host and Bar Book	Thomas Mario	1971	3
	Hell Hath No Fury	Bryna Taubman	1992	3
	The Bartender's Companion	Robert Plotkin	1993	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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