Wad-O-Drinks
There are some cocktail books who's only purpose in life is to attempt to squeeze as many recipes as they can into a single volume. Sometimes the authors and editors of these books have done significant research and the recipes that they present are quite good, other times it is clearly not the case.

These books are handy for when your friends ask you if you happen to know the recipe for some obscure or strange concoction. They usually clearly denote their attention to "Quantity" over "Quality" by bannering across their cover how many thousands of drinks they contain. The recipes themselves should not be considered as the best, or even most common variation of these drinks, but they provide a good starting point from which you can choose to expand from. For example, they will often list "Tripe Sec" as one of the ingredients for a Sidecar, when in fact this drink really struts it stuff when properly made with Cointreau.

It may be splitting hairs, but in the list below, I am specifically not including recipe books that appear to knowingly present a subset of cocktail recipes. For a list of those books, you want to refer to my Cocktail Guidebooks page.

Every cocktail library should contain at least one of these book, perhaps even more.

Available From:	American Bar : The Artistry of Mixing Drinks by: Charles Schumann January 1997 A noteworthy collection of cocktail recipes.
Available From:	Bartenders Bible by: Gary Regan October 1991 1001 Mixed Drinks and Everything You Need to Know to Set Up Your Bar
Available From:	The Bartender's Best Friend by: Mardee Haidin Regan October 21, 2002 This book provides a great collection of recipes that include both the best of the old, as well as those on the edge of becoming tomorrows hot new drink.
Search for On:	Bon Vivant's Companion -or- How to Mix Drinks by: Jerry Thomas 1928 Jerry Thomas, inventor of the Blue Blazer, lists a large collection of cocktails, punches, mulls, cobblers, flips, fizzes, and others that are rarely seen anymore.
Available From:	Complete World Bartender Guide by: Bob Sennett December 1993 A true Wad-O-Drinks book. Containing over 2400 different recipes, and cheap to boot.
Available From:	Esquire Drinks by: David Wondrich December 2002 Esquire Magazine once produced many excellent volumes dedicated to the art of the cocktail, and entertaining. After many years of absence from this field they have once again decided to provide a little guidance in their unique and eloquent style.
Available From:	Beachbum Berry's Grog Log by: Jeff Berry, Annene Kaye 1998 A selection of vintage tropical drink recipes. Original creations, and new interpretations of old classics.
Search for On: Available At: Amazon.com has a faithful reprint	How To Mix Drinks by: Jerry Thomas 1862 The original bartender's guide, written in 1862
Search for On:	Jones Complete Bar Guide by: Stan Jones 1977 One of the largest compendiums of cocktail recipes known
Available From:	The Joy of Mixology by: Gary Regan September, 2003 A truly unique guide to the art of the cocktail, one that spends more time investigating the structure of a well made drink then simply regurgitating yet another recipe for one.
Search for On:	Old Mr. Boston DeLuxe Official Bartender's Guide by: Leo Cotton (editor) 1946 The sixth edition of a popular volume that continues to be published today.
Available From:	The Savoy Cocktail Book by: Harry Craddock 1999 A recent reprinting of the original classic
Search for On:	Official Mixer's Manual, The by: Patrick Gavin Duffy 1934, reprinted 1940
Available From:	Straight Up Or On The Rocks by: William Grimes 2001 A very detailed examination of the history of cocktail, and the American culture that evolved around it
Search for On: Available At: Amazon.com has a faithful reprint	Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book, The by: Albert Stevens Crockett 1935 A post-prohibition collection of pre-prohibition drink recipes based on the bar manual of the Waldorf-Astoria bar
Available From:	Hawai'i Tropical Rum Drinks & Cuisine by Don the Beachcomber by: Arnold Bitner, Phoebe Beach 2001 A wonderful selection of Tropical classics as served by Don The Beachcomber in his various restaurants
Available From:	The Ultimate A to Z Bar Guide by: Sharon Tyler Herbst & Ron Herbst October 1999 A Drink Encyclopedia with answers to most, if not all, of your questions
Available From:	Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails by: Ted Haigh 2004 Once you've graduated from making the cocktails that everybody knows, it's time to crank things up a level and learn a few classics that deserve to be re-discovered.
Available From:	Wolf in Chef's Clothing by: Robert H. Loeb, Jr. 2000 (4th ed.) The Picture Cook And Drink Book for Men