Some I read in the last year or so and will be re-reading again in the future:
Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow, Children of God.
Karen Traviss, City of Pearl. (Wess'har Wars series)
A pity you don't like first-person, because this one is great. Not first contact, but ticks the anthropology/xenopology boxes:
Gene Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus.
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