my girlfwend started reading this to me a while ago and i much enjoyed it so far.
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Since my first pick wasn't new, The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. A very sobering look at how a first contact can go catastrophically wrong through no one's fault, but just because an alien species' values system may well not line up at all with ours.