White Cat
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN-13
- 9781416963967
- Type
- novel
About this book
White Cat opens Holly Black's Curse Workers trilogy, a fantasy novel published in 2010 at 310 pages, following Cassel Sharpe -- the only non-worker in a family of con artists and curse workers -- as he starts sleepwalking with no memory of what he's done. It's followed by Red Glove, continuing Black's alternate-America magic system of Prohibition-style organized crime built entirely around illegal curse-working.
Key facts about White Cat
White Cat is a novel by Holly Black. Readers have had it since 2010. It runs to 310 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of White Cat. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781416963967 to find the main one.
White Cat is book 1 of 3 in The Curse Workers series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Holly Black writes The Modern Faerie Tales, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Magisterium, plus 3 more series. Those series sit on our fantasy and romantic fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Thief of Night is the latest published Holly Black book on file, from 23 September 2025.
About Holly Black
Holly Black is an American author who has spent over two decades as one of the defining voices in young adult fantasy, moving between menacing faerie courts and other dark, richly imagined worlds. See every Holly Black book in order.
Its place in The Curse Workers
White Cat is book 1 in the The Curse Workers series. It is followed by Red Glove. See the full The Curse Workers reading order.
In Cassel Sharpe's world, a small fraction of people are "workers" -- able to curse others with a touch, transforming luck, memory, emotion, even physical form -- which is exactly why working of any kind has been illegal for a century and why organized crime families, Cassel's own included, are built entirely around it. Cassel is the only non-worker in a family of con artists and curse workers, or so he believes, and he's spent years quietly positioning himself as the closest thing to normal in his family -…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781416963967