Books are remembered for their characters, plots, language, humor, and heartbreak. They're not typically remembered for their cocktails, and yet many of literature's most famous stories are so full of booze their pages practically reek of it. In fact, alcohol plays a role in many important literary scenes, from the moment Ebenezer Scrooge endeavors to assist Bob Cratchit's struggling family in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, to the sweltering hot afternoon at the Plaza Hotel in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
While we may not recall that it's a bowl of smoking bishop Scrooge offers Cratchit, or that Daisy insists Tom and Gatsby cool down with a mint julep, there are some cocktails a reader cannot forget, like James Bond's iconic martini, or the moloko plus in A Clockwork Orange. From the iconic to the hardly-noticed, we've compiled a list of literary cocktails fit for a bibliophile. Cheers!