Recs if you like Drunk on All Your Strange New Words...

a list of sci-fi books containing aliens

A mixture of genres and age levels, but each book has a level of feeling like an escape room

Locked room mysteries! Impossible crimes to solve!

fiction exploring translation and learning other languages (sci-fi heavy but not exclusively)

As a translation student I live for books that use translation as a plot point or magic system. Give them all to me.