Everything Mistry writes is very good, interesting and developed. A Fine Balance was such a masterpiece though, that the others pale in comparison.

Those folks I know who've started with Love in a Time of Cholera have not liked 100 Years of Solitude as much. Those who've started, as I did, with 100 Years, have for the most part thought it was one of their favorite books of all time. I definitely think starting with 100 Years is a good idea.