Eoin Colfer

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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1998
  • Latest Book:
    November 2025
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About the Author

Eoin Colfer was born in Wexford, Republic of Ireland. He attained worldwide recognition in 2001, when the first Artemis Fowl book was published and became a New York Times Best Seller, as did some sequels. Among his other popular works are Half Moon Investigations, The Wish List, The Supernaturalist, and a series of Eoin Colfer's Legends. In January 2008, Colfer published a book titled Airman, another best-seller. To date more than half of his books have reached the New York Times list at least once. Colfer currently resides in Wexford, Ireland with his wife, Jackie, and two children, Séan and Finn.

Full Series List in Order

Artemis Fowl

1 - Artemis Fowl (May-2001)
2 - The Arctic Incident (May-2002)
3 - The Eternity Code (May-2003)
3.5 - The Seventh Dwarf (Mar-2004)
4 - The Opal Deception (Apr-2005)
5 - The Lost Colony (Sep-2006)
6 - The Time Paradox (Jul-2008)
7 - The Atlantis Complex (Aug-2010)
8 - The Last Guardian (Jul-2012)
The Artemis Fowl Files (Jul-2004)

Benny

1 - Benny and Omar (1998)
2 - Benny and Babe (Oct-2001)

Eoin Colfer's Legend of

The Legend of Spud Murphy (Sep-2004)
Legend of Captain Crow's Teet (Oct-2005)
Legend of the Worst Boy in the World (May-2007)

The Fowl Twins

1 - The Fowl Twins (Nov-2019)
2 - The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges (Oct-2020)
3 - The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve (Nov-2021)

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

6 - And Another Thing... (Oct-2009)

W.A.R.P.

1 - The Reluctant Assassin (May-2013)
2 - The Hangman's Revolution (Jun-2014)
3 - The Forever Man (Sep-2015)

Multi-Author Series List

Marvel's Iron Man

Iron Man: The Gauntlet (Oct-2016)

Book List in Order: 59 titles

  • Benny and Omar

    • / General Fiction
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    Benny - 1

    FOR BENNY SHAW, nothing could be worse than having to pick up and move to Africa. Nobody there plays his favorite sport, hurling; the Tunisian heat is grueling; and even his new school is weird, with its lovey-dovey hippies for teachers. How will he ...

  • Going Potty

  • Ed's Funny Feet

    Flyer number 4

    Ed Cooper has a problem with his big toes. The doctor says Ed needs 'correction shoes'. Disaster! Everybody will laugh at him.

    Ed uses every trick he can think of not to wear the shoes. He even tries DIY foot-straight...

  • Artemis Fowl

    Artemis Fowl - 1

    STAY BACK HUMAN. You don't know what you are dealing with! Twelve-year old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant, criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he has taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These...

  • Ed's Bed

    Poor Ed Cooper seems to have one problem after another. From Going Potty to Ed's Funny Feet, Ed's life is never boring. This time around Ed is having problems in school, he just can't get his head around his time-tables. At home things are bad too --...

  • Benny and Babe

    Benny - 2

    'If you don't recognise yourself and a dozen friends somewhere in here, you're probably an alien.' RTE GUIDE When Benny meets Babe he has met his match! Benny may be a wise guy, but Babe is at least three steps ahead of him. And he's on her te...

  • The Arctic Incident

    Artemis Fowl - 2

    The world's youngest criminal mastermind is back. Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya: his father. As Artemis rushes to his...

  • The Eternity Code

    Artemis Fowl - 3

    ARTEMIS FOWL IS GOING STRAIGHT -- AS SOON AS HE PULLS OFF THE MOST BRILLIANT CRIMINAL FEAT OF HIS CAREER. . . . After being held prisoner for years, Artemis Fowl's father has finally come home. He is a new man -- an honest man, much to Artemis's h...

  • The Wish List

    MEG IS TOO GOOD FOR HELL AND TOO BAD FOR HEAVEN. Cast out of her own home after her mother's death, Meg is a drifter, a troublemaker. But after a botched attempt to rob an old man, Meg ends up in a very sticky situation. Her soul is up for grabs a...



  • The Seventh Dwarf

    Artemis Fowl - 3.5

  • The Supernaturalist

    In the future, in a place called Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys. Freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the boys are put...

  • The Artemis Fowl Files

    Artemis Fowl

    HUMAN: PREPARE YOURSELF! How much do you know about the infamous Artemis Fowl and the People? Become an expert on everything in Artemis's world, with this hilarious and essential guide to the Artemis Fowl books. Featuring: - Two brand-new ...

  • The Legend of Spud Murphy

    Eoin Colfer's Legend of

    Suddenly, a shadow fell across my brother. . . . It was Spud. She had appeared without a sound, like a ninja librarian. The name Spud Murphy strikes fear into the hearts of children everywhere. Grown-ups think she's a kindly old librarian, but ki...

  • The Opal Deception

    Artemis Fowl - 4

    After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl had his mind wiped of his memories of the world belowground. Any goodness he had grudgingly learned is now gone, and the young genius has reverted to his criminal lifestyle. Artemis is in Berli...

  • Legend of Captain Crow's Teet

    Eoin Colfer's Legend of

    After surviving a summer with the legendary ninja librarian Spud Murphy, not much can scare brothers Will and Marty Woodman. Until, that is, they travel with their family to the small seaside town famous for its resident ghost. Legend has it that whe...

  • Half-Moon Investigations

    Fletcher Moon has never been like other kids. For one thing, he has had to suffer the humiliating nickname "Half Moon" because of his short stature. But the real reason Fletcher is different is that ever since he was a baby, he's had a nose for sniff...

  • The Lost Colony

    Artemis Fowl - 5

    Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden f...

  • Legend of the Worst Boy in the World

    Eoin Colfer's Legend of

    Growing up with four complainers for brothers, Will Woodman has a hard time getting an audience for his own troubles. He has to wait in line to gripe to his mom--and that leaves his dad. But since his dad is so busy, Will has to defer to his older (a...

  • The Time Paradox

    Artemis Fowl - 6

    AFTER DISAPPEARING FOR THREE YEARS, Artemis Fowl has returned to a life different from the one he had. Now he's a big brother, and spends his days teaching his twin siblings the important things in life, such as how to properly summon a waiter at a F...



  • Airman

    CONOR BROEKHART was born to fly. In the 1890s, Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. He spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king's daughter, Prince...

  • And Another Thing...

    Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 6

    An Englishman's continuing search through space and time for a decent cup of tea . . . Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has not been entirely without incident. Arthur h...

  • The Atlantis Complex

    Artemis Fowl - 7

    Artemis Fowl has lost his mind...just when the world needs him most. Artemis has committed his entire fortune to a project he believes will save the planet and its inhabitants, both human and fairy. Can it be true? Has goodness taken hold of the wor...

  • Artemis Begins

    in Guys Read: Funny Business

    Long before Artemis Fowl appeared in Eoin Colfer's hit series, he was born in the form of Eoin's younger brother Donal--the "young criminal mastermind" of the family. And on one particular spring day, he concocts his most sinister plot yet....

  • Plugged

    The long-awaited crime caper so outlandish, so maniacal, so wickedly funny, it could have only come from the mind that brought you Artemis Fowl. Daniel McEvoy has a problem. Well, really, he has several, but for this Irish ex-pat bouncer at a seedy,...

  • The Last Guardian

    Artemis Fowl - 8

    Seemingly nothing in this world daunts the young criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl. In the fairy world, however, there is a small thing that has gotten under his skin on more than one occasion: Opal Koboi. In The Last Guardian, the evil pixie is wreak...

  • A Big Hand For The Doctor

    Eleven Doctors, eleven months, eleven stories: a year-long celebration of Doctor Who! The most exciting names in children's fiction each create their own unique adventure about the time-travelling Time Lord.London, 1900. The First Doctor is missing b...

  • Screwed

    In this gritty and compelling follow-up to the critically acclaimed Plugged, Colfer adds a new chapter to the adventures and misadventures of Daniel McEvoy, the down-on-his-luck Irish bouncer at a seedy New Jersey bar who, with the help of a motley c...

  • The Reluctant Assassin

    W.A.R.P. - 1

    Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. On one...

  • The Hangman's Revolution

    W.A.R.P. - 2

    Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a Fascist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territ...



  • The Opal Deception: The Graphic Novel

  • The Fish In The Bathtub

    Eoin Colfer’s heartwarming tale of an unlikely friendship and the bond between a girl and her grandfather – now in a standard paperback format for middle-grade readers. Little Lucja’s Grandpa Feliks has seen off the German army, and...

  • The Lookout

    A short story from the Fighting Words collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written and illustrated by two of the most outstanding talents in children’s fiction todayIreland, 1955: Charley’s used to being lookout for Mammy â€" or ‘Sal Capone’, as she...

  • Mary's Hair

    Horrid Henry meets Mrs Doyle in this riotous comedy from former Irish Laureate Eoin Colfer now with full colour artwork.Mary loathes her big, curly, bushy hair and so she chops it all off and she looks fantastic! well, at least she thinks so. But he...

  • The Forever Man

    W.A.R.P. - 3

    Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, the Great Savano. He owes much of his success to Chevie, a seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future in a time pod and helped him...

  • Imaginary Fred

    From the internationally bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the New York Times Bestselling illustrator of "The Day the Crayons Quit" comes a quirky, funny, and utterly irresistible story. Did you know that sometimes, with a little electricity, or ...

  • The Seal's Fate

  • Iron Man: The Gauntlet

    Marvel's Iron Man

    Tony Stark is known throughout the world as many things:billionaire, inventor, Avenger. But mainly for being the Invincible Iron Man. Just when Tony is about to add his pizzazz to an international eco-summit in Ireland, someone close to him forces hi...

  • Once Upon a Place

    Once Upon a Place features six new poems by Irish poets alongside 11 new short stories from many of Ireland’s leading children’s writers including Roddy Doyle, Derek Landy and former Laureate na nÃ"g (a position awarded in Ireland to children'...

  • Illegal

    A powerfully moving graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels that explores the current plight of undocumented immigrants. Ebo is alone.His brother, Kwame, has disappeared, ...



  • Hexagonal Phase

    Arthur Dent and friends return in this latest outing, adapted and produced for radio by Dirk Maggs. Starring Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoff McGivern as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Sandra Dickinson as Trillian and Jane H...

  • Mariella, Queen of the Skies

    Mariella loves nothing more than inventing but bedtime keeps getting in the way of all her brilliant ideas! So when Mum and Dad won''t take no for an answer there''s only one thing for it... Mariella has to build a rocket- powered flying suit to zap ...

  • Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel

    In 2001, audiences first met and fell in love with a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind named Artemis Fowl. Since then, the eight-book series about his adventures has sold over twenty-five million copies throughout the world. To coincide with the ma...

  • The Dog Who Lost His Bark

    A warm, uplifting story about a boy, his dog, and the healing power of music marks a first-time collaboration between two former Irish Children’s Laureates, Eoin Colfer and P.J. Lynch. Patrick has been desperate for a dog of his own for as long ...

  • The Fowl Twins

    The Fowl Twins - 1

    One week after their eleventh birthday, the Fowl twins--scientist Myles, and Beckett, the force of nature--are left in the care of house security (NANNI) for a single night. In that time they befriend a troll who has clawed his way through the earth&...

  • Highfire

    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana -- and the raucous adventures t...

  • Artemis Fowl Movie Tie-In Edition

    Now an original movie on Disney+, here is the book that started it all, the international bestseller about a teenage criminal mastermind and his siege against dangerous, tech-savvy fairies. New York Times bestselling author, Eoin Colfer and series, A...

  • The Fowl Twins Deny All Charges

    The Fowl Twins - 2

    The second Fowl Twins adventure, a spinoff of the blockbuster Artemis Fowl series, starts with a bang--literally. Artemis's little brothers Myles and Beckett borrow the Fowl jet without permission, and it ends up as a fireball over Florida. The twins...

  • The Arctic Incident: The Graphic Novel

    The second book in the internationally best-selling Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer is available as a full-color graphic novel with all-new text and artwork.The world's youngest, brightest, and most dangerous criminal mastermind is back.Artemis Fo...

  • Anna Liza and the Happy Practice



  • The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve

    The Fowl Twins - 3

    Irish Twins Myles and Beckett, Artemis Fowl's younger brothers, return in their third and most bizarre adventure yet, now in paperback.*Like its bestselling progenitors, a nonstop spinoff afroth with high-tech, spectacular magic, and silly business.&...

  • The Eternity Code: The Graphic Novel

    The third book in the internationally best-selling Artemis Fowl series by New York Times best-selling author, Eoin Colfer, is available as a full-color graphic novel with all-new text and artwork.*Readers will burn the midnight oil to the finish. ...

  • Eoin Colfer

    The third book in the internationally best-selling Artemis Fowl series by New York Times best-selling author, Eoin Colfer, is available as a full-color graphic novel with all-new text and artwork. *"Readers will burn the midnight oil to the finish." ...

  • Cloud Babies

    Eoin Colfer, New York Times best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl series, pens a warm, empathy-building story based on illustrator Chris Judge’s family’s experience with childhood illness.Six-year-old Erin’s favorite game is spott...

  • Global

    From New York Times bestselling author Eoin Colfer and the team behind the Artemis Fowl graphic novels and bestselling, acclaimed graphic novel Illegal comes a compelling and timely story that follows two courageous children as they face the effects ...

  • Little Big Sister

    A fun and gentle story about disability, family and fitting in, told by a major children’s author and illustrated by an artist with dwarfism. This is the story of Starr, a girl with dwarfism who lives with her mum and younger sister, Babs. As ...

  • Three Tasks for a Dragon

    With wit and gorgeous art, New York Times best-selling author Eoin Colfer and multi-award-winning illustrator P.J. Lynch team up again for a quest story of knights, dark magic, and a maiden with powers of her own. Studious Prince Lir is next in line ...

  • Juniper's Christmas

  • Beanie the Bansheenie

    A best-selling author and an award-winning illustrator join forces in a long-form picture book that turns a familiar myth of Irish folklore into a universal story of love, perseverance, and friendship against all odds.Banshees are well known to most ...

  • Firefox Moon

Award-Winning Books by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl
2002 Massachusetts Children's Book Award -- Children's Book
2004 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Intermediate/Grades 7-9
The Legend of Spud Murphy
2005 Great Stone Face Book Award -- Grades 4-6
2006 Charlotte Award -- Intermediate
The Supernaturalist
2007 Evergreen Young Adult Book Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Eoin Colfer has published 59 books.

The next book by Eoin Colfer, Firefox Moon, will be published in November 2025.

The first book by Eoin Colfer, Benny and Omar, was published in January 1998.

Yes. Eoin Colfer has 6 series.
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