For a beginner I would recommend maybe Face To Face since it also have more rocking songs on it or Arthur. Maybe Arthur would be a good starting point. At least I started with it.
If you are not familiar with them, do not choose Something Else or Muswell Hillbillies for your first listen. Both are great albums but Hillbillies is very untypical Kinks album and while something else is very good album, for a beginner it would be maybe a little bit hard album to get in to cos it's occasionally boring and very calm and quiet.
If you want to know more about them or know what you should listen from them, this page is a good place to start:
The Kinks