If you like the Villain's month thing, then I would suggest starting from Forever Evil #1. Then if you want to know how it lead up to the Forever Evil event, then you've gotta get Trinity War... it's debatable if it's essential... but still it's nice to know how it got up to Forever Evil.
Also, I think you might be getting confused with the Villain's Month and Zero Year because some of the Villain titles are origin stories (not all of them are). Some Villain titles will tie-in to their respective original titles' current arc, some will be origin stories and some will tie-in to Forever Evil.
"Zero Year" refers to the year long event of Batman's/Bruce's new origin in The New 52. And if you want to get into it, the best starting point is #21... which is the beginning of the Zero Year arc, currently we are at #23 (and the decimal numberings) and next month will be #24.
You could also wait for the ridiculously expensive collection of all the Villain month's titles, all in one book.
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