This template is a container to do the following:

• Add header (Template:Infobox Book/type|get=header)
• Add list items (Template:Infobox Book/type)
• Add footer (Template:Infobox Book/type|get=footer)

This example was taken from Pits of Inferno:

{{BookList|type=List/Sorted
 |My Life as a Spoon (Book)
 |The Language of the Wolves (Book)
 |Forbidden Secrets of Magic! (Book)
}}

This outputs:

Name	Book Type	Short Description
My Life as a Spoon (Book)		?
The Language of the Wolves (Book)		The Language of the Wolves.
Forbidden Secrets of Magic! (Book)		?

The List/Sorted is the list template to call. This template will call it 5 times: once for the header, 3 times for all the books in the list, and once for the footer.