I am wanting to take a deep dive into Greek history and to start from the beginning. I've decided to start with the Aegean Bronze Age (around 3000 BC).
My question is what are the best books to get an in depth understanding of this period? Primary and secondary sources are both welcome.
I've seen a lot of love given to Eric Cline books among a few other, but most the praise I have seen is a few years old and I was looking to get the most up to date information.
It's a good idea to stop and think a bit about where you want to get with this. Bear in mind, "Classical Greece", what most of us probably think of as Ancient Greece, starts around 500 BC. The things we know and love - philosophy, architecture, art, and so on, are inseparably a product of interaction and exchange with the Near East and, crucially, the lands under Achaemenid dominion. It's not a coincidence that we see Greece flourish as the Near East and Central Asia are united into a stable, prosperous polity. The era before this, Archaic Greece, is probably mostly known to you as "Homer and Hesiod", full stop. And before THAT... we're in the post-Bronze Age collapse era.
What I'm saying is, if you're looking to understand what led to Classical Greece, you need to look at Mesopotamia, Syria and Egypt. I've been happy with "A History of the Ancient Near East: 3000 BC to 323 BC" by van de Mieroop as a very general reference work myself. From a work like that you should get an idea of what area you want to focus on and read more specialized monographs on.
Our books list might be a good place to start: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/books