It's always possible to write more, but I have four suggestions in particular. I feel that the reason you don't like Ottoman history might be it all seems just religion and conquest. Perhaps you might be interested in a narrative overview of the Empire from the beginning to the end; Caroline Finkel's Osman's Dream (available in Turkish as Rüyadan İmparatorluğa Osmanlı... from Timaş Yayınevi).

When I was younger, one thing that struck me with lectures on classical Ottoman history was the virtual lack of intellectual history. It was like the chaps had no idea about what the world and politics should be like; they were just bent on making everyone Muslim and that's it, you might feel from some TV series. If you find this disturbing and feel this just can't be so, why not try Marinos Sariyannis's A History of Ottoman Political Thought? This work may provide a more complex view of the Ottoman intellectual world. It's not that Islam was unimportant to your average Ottoman; far from it! But they did think about stuff that you don't see often in popular portrayals of the Ottomans, such as Ibn Khaldun's theory on the ephemeral nature of every state and what this entailed for the Ottoman Empire.

Speaking of religion, are you familiar with the work of Ahmet Yaşar Ocak? His work on religious dissent and deism/atheism in the Ottoman Empire, titled Osmanlı Toplumunda Zındıklar ve Mülhidler is excellent reading. Reading this, you'll get to meet some delightful Ottoman chaps from the 17th century like Lari Mehmed, who reportedly observed that God could not possibly exist, since if God existed, He would not let a blasphemer like Lari himself survive! (spoiler alert: Lari Mehmed did not live for much longer, so make of that what you will...).

Finally, I'd strongly recommend Cemal Kafadar's Kim Var İmiş Burada Biz Yoğ İken. In this work, Kafadar tries to shed light on the everyday life of different sorts of individuals in the Ottoman Empire. My favourite was the part focusing on the diary of a dervish from either the 16th or 17th century, which Kafadar uses to reconstruct what was going on in the mind of such men. It's quite interesting because we get to hear the dervish's emotions and events in his life through his own words.

I hope these will help you find Ottoman history more interesting! And congratulations on your acceptance to a history programme! As a side note, most Ottoman history-related courses appear later in Turkish curricula, around 2-3 years. May I ask which university you will be joining? They must have a particular curriculum if you are already worried about their Ottoman-related courses!