Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir

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· HarperAudio · Narrated by Mark Hoppus
4.7
19 reviews
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A smart, funny, and refreshingly candid memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. Narrated in his own voice, the audiobook offers an intimate and immersive experience that fans won’t want to miss.

This is the story of an angst-filled kid from the desert, navigating the chaos of his parents' bitter divorce and searching for his place in the world. Each move across the country was a chance to reinvent himself, switching identities from dork to goth to skate punk, and eventually meeting his best friend who just so happens to be his musical soulmate.

With sharp humor and raw honesty, Fahrenheit-182 takes readers through Mark's formative years as a latchkey kid in the 1980s, hooked on punk rock, skateboards, and MTV. Along the way, Mark reflects on his lifelong battle with anxiety, his celebrated career with blink-182, and his public fight with cancer, in a voice that’s both relatable and unmistakably his own.

Threaded with heartfelt grit, Fahrenheit-182 is more than just a memoir for blink-182 fans. It’s a funny, smart, and deeply human story for anyone who’s struggled, reinvented themselves, wanted to quit but kept going.

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4.7
19 reviews
Sean Tucker
May 26, 2025
No words can describe how much I have always wanted to know how things went down from Mark's POV. I consider this a part of the blink-182 discography and will be inserted into rotation thusly.
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Rob Strickland
April 24, 2025
perfect
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Manny Peralta
April 23, 2025
made me smile, so glad Mark did this
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About the author

As a founding member of blink-182, +44, and Simple Creatures, Mark Hoppus has survived three decades of the ever-changing alternative music scene. From small punk clubs to skyrocketing fame in the TRL era, Mark, alongside blink-182, catapulted pop-punk into the mainstream and has sold over 50 million albums and gained billions of streams worldwide. Hoppus also honed in his hosting skills with his Fuse TV show, Hoppus on Music, and in 2020, launched a weekly radio show with Apple Music. In 2023, blink-182’s latest album, One More Time..., debuted at #1 on the US Billboard album chart and further cemented their enduring cultural relevance. The band have just ended their biggest tour to date selling out arenas, stadiums, and headlining festivals all over the world. Mark lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Skye and his son, Jack.

Dan Ozzi is a highly regarded music journalist. A New York–raised, Los Angeles–based writer, he is the author of Dey Street’s Sellout: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy that Swept Punk, Emo and Hardcore, a national bestseller and an NPR Book of the Year. Along with Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace, he co-authored 2016’s Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, which was listed in Billboard’s “100 Greatest Music Books of All Time.” He has contributed to The Guardian, SPIN, Billboard, The Fader, and others. For more than five years, he was a staff writer at Vice’s music website, Noisey.

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