Recommendations for First Encounters

[Odette]

I am looking for books to read on First Encounters. They can be on earth, in space, and include any form of alien life.

[Silvana]

Semiosis! Intelligent plants in alien planet.

[Anna]

This is what I can think of without looking at my shelves, I'm sure others have plenty of other recs!

Binti
Lagoon
Rosewater
The Lesson
A Woman of the Iron People
Remnant Population
Grass
Solaris
Childhood's End

Stories of Your Life and Others (short fiction piece "Story of Your Life")

[Louise]

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
and definitely Grass as Anna suggests above.

[Anthony]

Currently reading an excellent first contact story told from the point of view of the aliens rather than the humans: The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh.

[Margaret]

Nor Crystal Tears by Alan Dean Foster is a first contact novel that sets up the major interspecies alliance for his "Humanx Commonwealth" stories.

[Adrian]

Surprised Carl Sagan's Contact hasn't made this list...

Contact

[Paul]

The Liu Cixin trilogy is pretty mind blowing.
The Three-Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death's End