This month we’re looking at psychology and communication, starting with Duped: Why Innocent People Confess-- and Why We Believe Their Confessions by Saul Kassin.

So, I’m not sure how to review the Torah and not skim through it, so while I’m figuring out how to do all this Holy Reading, I’m going to start with an overarching book, A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman.

Since I spent all of NYE and New Year’s Day glued to my social media feeds watching what was going on in Iran, I reconfigured my reading list to jump to Persia, making this weeks book Persians: The Age of Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.

Continuing my learning streak about Iran, this weeks book is The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran by Homa Katouzian.

So how did we get to where we are now in Iran? How did the Shah come to be living in exile, and a formerly exiled Ayatollah take power? Let’s see if this is all covered in this weeks book, The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper.

I have a book on Islam in Iran…but I decided to focus on something a bit more positive and take a peek at one of the earliest religions, making this weeks book In Search of Zarathustra: Across Iran and Central Asia to Find the World's First Prophet by Paul Kriwaczek.

Starting this month with a work of literature, which will tie into the overarching theme of surviving repression, making this weeks book A History of Judaism by Margaret Atwood.

This month we’re looking at those who have survived true repression, making this weeks book The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad.

Continuing our look at survivors, this weeks book is I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai.

Rounding out our series on survivors, this weeks book is Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Having spent the month with survivors of this particular regime, it seems fitting to close the month with this weeks book, The Secret Apparatus: The Muslim Brotherhoods Industry of Death by Cynthia Farahat.

Spring Time is time to plant and there are an awful lot of people who are enthralled with the idea of homesteading, so this month, we’re looking at what that might entail, starting with The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer by Joel Salatin.

Continuing our look at what homesteading entails, this weeks book is Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture by Gabe Brown.

Rounding out our month on homesteading information, this weeks book is Everything I Want to do is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front also by Joel Salatin.

Returning to our study of world myths and religions, this month’s book on religion is Gods, Goddesses, and Myths of Creation by Mircea Eliade.

Time for a fiction break and this month I wanted something fun, not something that matched the monthly topic, making this weeks book Academy of Outcasts by Larry Correia.

For the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, let’s look at some of the fuckery our government gets up to with our over taxed dollars, starting with this weeks book, Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA by John Lisle.

Continuing our look into governmental fuckery, this weeks book is Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen.

Rounding out our month of governmental fuckery, this weeks book is Skinwalkers and the Pentagon: An Insiders Account of the Secret Government UFO Program by James Lacatski.

Are we a Christian nation? What did the founding father’s think? That is the topic of this weeks book, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Meacham.

Time for a brain break with fiction, but this one is semi-topical to the rest of the months theme, McMasters Guide to Homicide Volume 1: Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes.

It’s been a while since I spent an entire month with the same author, or in this case authors, but this month we’re looking at the criminal mind, starting with Mindhunter by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Continuing with our look at the criminal mind, this weeks book is Journey Into Darkness by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker.

This weeks book completes the trilogy by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker on the criminal mind, The Killer Across the Table.

So I found a book that discusses primarily the worlds first recorded murder, The Beast That Crouches at the Door: Adam & Eve, Cain & Abel, and Beyond by Rabbi David Fohrman.

During a random browse at my local Barnes & Noble, I found a trio of books by more survivors of Islam, so we’re starting this month with The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide by Nice Leng’ete & Elizabeth Butler-Witter.

This week’s survivor story is Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz & Malaina Kapoor.

The final memoir on survivors of Islam is Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi.

I’m sure there is a book out there about how great Islam is…but not today. Today’s book is The Tragedy of Islam: Admissions of a Muslim Imam by Imam Mohammad Tawhidi.

October is where I review books on spooky stuff, and this month I’ve decided to look more at the history of magic, by looking at historical beliefs with Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Fortunately, it’s three literal books, so we’re going to read them one by one, starting with Book 1: The Natural World. Translation is by Eric Purdue.

October is where I review books on spooky stuff, and this month I’ve decided to look more at the history of magic, by looking at historical beliefs with Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Fortunately, it’s three literal books, so we’re going to read them one by one, and next up is Book 2: The Celestial World. Translation is by Eric Purdue.

October is where I review books on spooky stuff, and this month I’ve decided to look more at the history of magic, by looking at historical beliefs with Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Fortunately, it’s three literal books, so we’re going to read them one by one, rounding out this month with Book 3: The Divine World. Translation is by Eric Purdue.

So how does this months reading tie together with religion? Well, that’s sort of the topic of this weeks book, Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion by Nicholas Spencer.

Since we just had an election, lets spend this month with Communism…or rather, the mind control that is part and parcel of Communism, starting with Animal Farm by George Orwell.

Since Communism and it’s worship is basically a cult, this weeks book is Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China by Robert Jay Lifton.

Continuing with mind control techniques, this weeks book is The Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo.

Now that we know how mind control happens, how do you fight it? That’s the topic of this weeks book, Combatting Cult Mind Control by Steven Hassan.

This month’s religious reading is a classic, often mistaken for an economic treatise, but clearly religious bollocks, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.