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By now, you’ve promised an appearance at a few nuptials (or sent along your best wishes) this summer.

You’ve purchased plane tickets at exorbitant cost and scrambled to find a suitable plus-one.

You’ve steeled yourself to eat dry cake, sign guestbooks, perform toasts and weep with joy (or boredom)!

All of this stuff can really wear a person down.

Don’t worry. We’ve put together a flow chart to prescribe just the right book to get you through wedding season. Start at the top and work your way down for all sorts of literary distraction. (Just remember: no reading on the dance floor.)

Tags: Carson McCullers, Cold Sassy Tree, Galt Niederhoffer, I Totally Meant to Do That, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, Jane Borden, Jen Doll, Jessie Knadler, Maggie Shipstead, Mary McCarthy, Olive Ann Burns, Rurally Screwed, Save the Date: The Occasional Mortifications of a Serial Wedding Guest, Seating Arrangements, Sloane Crosley, The Group, The Member of the Wedding, The Romantics