Have you ever watched a movie or read a book that you knew you were going to love even before you started watching/reading it? One movie I knew I was going to love even before the opening credits started was the Oscar nominated foreign language film, Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulin, or simply Amélie. 
Amelie is a movie in French about a young, single, eccentric woman and the oddities of her life in Paris. I am a big Francophile and I’m also a young – or at least I was the first time I watched the movie 🙂 – single, kind of eccentric woman living in a big city. When I watched the movie, I wasn’t disappointed and I have counted it as one of my favorite movies ever since.
Today, I am making a similar prediction about some books. A Booktuber whose videos I enjoy went through her TBR pile and picked out some books she thinks she will give a 5/5 star rating to when she finally reads them. I decided to do something similar so listed below are 5 books I am predicting that I will love.
- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Man Booker Prize winner)
- The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Pulitzer prize winning author and Booker prize nominee)
- The Unseen World by Liz Moore (a thriller that comes highly recommended)
- The Things Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s (Author of Americanah)
- What If by Randall Munroe (absurd scientific questions)
Click to watch my video where I chat a little more about why I made those predictions.
What was the last book or movie you thought you would absolutely love? Were you wrong or right?
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I really thought I’d love Lovely Bones after seeing the trailer, and especially after reading the book and loving it, but it was a bit of a let-down unfortunately
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I hope they live up to expectations. I rarely expect to love something (at least not the first book of a series), so I’m always pleasantly surprised.
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I’ve read a couple of reviews for number 1 and 100% know I’ll love it!
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That’s what I am hoping too.
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Do books in series you love count? I can guarantee I will love books in a few series, as well as all the books by some authors.
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Absolutely. I don’t read a lot of series but if I really like an author, I am pretty sure I will enjoy their other books although I must say I have been disappointed with that one before.
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So have I – one of my formerly favorite authors just got old after a while for me. I haven’t read anything of hers in years.
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I thought I would live “the big sick” and I fid
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yes there have been books that I just KNEW 🙂 if I adore the author or the series! Like World After book 2 of Angelfall. 🙂
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And did they all live up to your expectations? have you ever been disappointed by a book? I’d love to hear about it
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Sorry if this doesn’t sound too modest! 😜 Yup but I think that we bookworms have pretty good instincts! So I think 99% lived up ti my expectations 😊 I’ll think about that 1% and try to find a good example 😊
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I like that.
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