Below is the complete list of Eoin Colfer’s The Fowl Twins books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of The Fowl Twins Books
About The Fowl Twins
Eoin Colfer’s The Fowl Twins series is a three-book spin-off from the Artemis Fowl universe, centered on Artemis’s younger twin brothers, Myles and Beckett Fowl. The sequence begins with The Fowl Twins, continues with Deny All Charges, and concludes with Get What They Deserve. It keeps the same broad world of fairies, advanced technology, criminal intelligence, secret agencies, and absurdly dangerous plots, but the tone is younger, wilder, and more chaotic than the original Artemis Fowl books.
Myles and Beckett are not miniature copies of Artemis, though Myles would probably like to think otherwise. Myles is the more visibly Fowl-like twin: brilliant, formal, calculating, fond of suits, and convinced that his intellect gives him natural authority over most situations. Beckett is his opposite in temperament: physical, instinctive, joyful, unpredictable, and far less interested in appearing civilized. The comedy of the series depends heavily on that contrast. Myles tries to impose logic and control; Beckett charges into life with disarming confidence and a willingness to do the thing no careful person would attempt.
The first book, The Fowl Twins, establishes the brothers as heirs to a family legacy that is both glamorous and hazardous. Being related to Artemis means they inherit not only wealth and intelligence, but also the attention of enemies, fairies, law-enforcement forces, and eccentric criminals who understand that the Fowl name is never attached to ordinary trouble. Colfer uses the opening novel to introduce the twins’ rhythm as partners. They argue, misunderstand each other, and operate by completely different rules, but their bond is never really in doubt.
The fairy world remains essential, but the spin-off changes the angle. Artemis’s original adventures often had the structure of a heist, a negotiation, or a moral test for a boy genius learning empathy. The Fowl Twins books are more manic and openly comic, with faster reversals, stranger set pieces, and a stronger emphasis on sibling chemistry. Myles may have inherited the strategic brain, but Beckett repeatedly proves that intelligence is not the only useful form of brilliance. Instinct, kindness, physical courage, and sheer unpredictability matter just as much.
Deny All Charges deepens the series by putting the twins under greater suspicion and pressure. The title captures the Fowl family’s natural relationship to authority: even when innocent, they sound guilty; even when guilty, they are usually several moves ahead of the accusation. The book continues the blend of fairy technology, criminal complication, and brotherly chaos, while showing that Myles and Beckett are developing their own identity apart from Artemis’s shadow.
Get What They Deserve brings the trilogy to its final main movement, pushing the twins into another high-risk confrontation where old enemies, fairy-world danger, and Fowl-family resourcefulness collide. As a concluding title, it also plays with the moral ambiguity that has always surrounded the Fowls. What they “deserve” is never simple punishment or reward. In Colfer’s world, cleverness must be tested, arrogance must be punctured, and loyalty must be proven through action rather than family reputation.
The series is best read after the main Artemis Fowl books, or at least after enough of them to understand the Fowl family, the fairy world, and the tone of Colfer’s universe. It can be followed on its own, but it gains extra pleasure from knowing what Artemis, Holly Short, Foaly, and the Lower Elements world meant in the earlier sequence.
The Fowl Twins works because it does not merely repeat Artemis’s arc. It turns the legacy sideways. Myles and Beckett inherit a world of secrets, but they bring a new kind of disorder to it: one half precision, one half mayhem, and both halves unmistakably Fowl.