Sample plugin for usage of WP_List_Table class (complete version)

testlisttable_complete.php

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Test List Table Example
*/

if( ! class_exists( 'WP_List_Table' ) ) {
    require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php' );
}

class My_Example_List_Table extends WP_List_Table {

    var $example_data = array(
            array( 'ID' => 1,'booktitle' => 'Quarter Share', 'author' => 'Nathan Lowell', 
                   'isbn' => '978-0982514542' ),
            array( 'ID' => 2, 'booktitle' => '7th Son: Descent','author' => 'J. C. Hutchins',
                   'isbn' => '0312384378' ),
            array( 'ID' => 3, 'booktitle' => 'Shadowmagic', 'author' => 'John Lenahan',
                   'isbn' => '978-1905548927' ),
            array( 'ID' => 4, 'booktitle' => 'The Crown Conspiracy', 'author' => 'Michael J. Sullivan',
                   'isbn' => '978-0979621130' ),
            array( 'ID' => 5, 'booktitle'     => 'Max Quick: The Pocket and the Pendant', 'author'    => 'Mark Jeffrey',
                   'isbn' => '978-0061988929' ),
            array('ID' => 6, 'booktitle' => 'Jack Wakes Up: A Novel', 'author' => 'Seth Harwood',
                  'isbn' => '978-0307454355' )
        );
    function __construct(){
    global $status, $page;

        parent::__construct( array(
            'singular'  => __( 'book', 'mylisttable' ),     //singular name of the listed records
            'plural'    => __( 'books', 'mylisttable' ),   //plural name of the listed records
            'ajax'      => false        //does this table support ajax?

    ) );

    add_action( 'admin_head', array( &$this, 'admin_header' ) );            

    }

  function admin_header() {
    $page = ( isset($_GET['page'] ) ) ? esc_attr( $_GET['page'] ) : false;
    if( 'my_list_test' != $page )
    return;
    echo '<style type="text/css">';
    echo '.wp-list-table .column-id { width: 5%; }';
    echo '.wp-list-table .column-booktitle { width: 40%; }';
    echo '.wp-list-table .column-author { width: 35%; }';
    echo '.wp-list-table .column-isbn { width: 20%;}';
    echo '</style>';
  }

  function no_items() {
    _e( 'No books found, dude.' );
  }

  function column_default( $item, $column_name ) {
    switch( $column_name ) { 
        case 'booktitle':
        case 'author':
        case 'isbn':
            return $item[ $column_name ];
        default:
            return print_r( $item, true ) ; //Show the whole array for troubleshooting purposes
    }
  }

function get_sortable_columns() {
  $sortable_columns = array(
    'booktitle'  => array('booktitle',false),
    'author' => array('author',false),
    'isbn'   => array('isbn',false)
  );
  return $sortable_columns;
}

function get_columns(){
        $columns = array(
            'cb'        => '<input type="checkbox" />',
            'booktitle' => __( 'Title', 'mylisttable' ),
            'author'    => __( 'Author', 'mylisttable' ),
            'isbn'      => __( 'ISBN', 'mylisttable' )
        );
         return $columns;
    }

function usort_reorder( $a, $b ) {
  // If no sort, default to title
  $orderby = ( ! empty( $_GET['orderby'] ) ) ? $_GET['orderby'] : 'booktitle';
  // If no order, default to asc
  $order = ( ! empty($_GET['order'] ) ) ? $_GET['order'] : 'asc';
  // Determine sort order
  $result = strcmp( $a[$orderby], $b[$orderby] );
  // Send final sort direction to usort
  return ( $order === 'asc' ) ? $result : -$result;
}

function column_booktitle($item){
  $actions = array(
            'edit'      => sprintf('<a href="?page=%s&action=%s&book=%s">Edit</a>',$_REQUEST['page'],'edit',$item['ID']),
            'delete'    => sprintf('<a href="?page=%s&action=%s&book=%s">Delete</a>',$_REQUEST['page'],'delete',$item['ID']),
        );

  return sprintf('%1$s %2$s', $item['booktitle'], $this->row_actions($actions) );
}

function get_bulk_actions() {
  $actions = array(
    'delete'    => 'Delete'
  );
  return $actions;
}

function column_cb($item) {
        return sprintf(
            '<input type="checkbox" name="book[]" value="%s" />', $item['ID']
        );    
    }

function prepare_items() {
  $columns  = $this->get_columns();
  $hidden   = array();
  $sortable = $this->get_sortable_columns();
  $this->_column_headers = array( $columns, $hidden, $sortable );
  usort( $this->example_data, array( &$this, 'usort_reorder' ) );
  
  $per_page = 5;
  $current_page = $this->get_pagenum();
  $total_items = count( $this->example_data );

  // only ncessary because we have sample data
  $this->found_data = array_slice( $this->example_data,( ( $current_page-1 )* $per_page ), $per_page );

  $this->set_pagination_args( array(
    'total_items' => $total_items,                  //WE have to calculate the total number of items
    'per_page'    => $per_page                     //WE have to determine how many items to show on a page
  ) );
  $this->items = $this->found_data;
}

} //class



function my_add_menu_items(){
  $hook = add_menu_page( 'My Plugin List Table', 'My List Table Example', 'activate_plugins', 'my_list_test', 'my_render_list_page' );
  add_action( "load-$hook", 'add_options' );
}

function add_options() {
  global $myListTable;
  $option = 'per_page';
  $args = array(
         'label' => 'Books',
         'default' => 10,
         'option' => 'books_per_page'
         );
  add_screen_option( $option, $args );
  $myListTable = new My_Example_List_Table();
}
add_action( 'admin_menu', 'my_add_menu_items' );



function my_render_list_page(){
  global $myListTable;
  echo '</pre><div class="wrap"><h2>My List Table Test</h2>'; 
  $myListTable->prepare_items(); 
?>
  <form method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="page" value="ttest_list_table">
    <?php
    $myListTable->search_box( 'search', 'search_id' );

  $myListTable->display(); 
  echo '</form></div>'; 
}

The books_per_page screen option doesn't work correctly here, because, as with most of this example code, it has been copied and pasted all over the web and not actually tested. WordPress does not save this setting by default; if you try to set the items per page in the screen options it will simply ignore what you type and use the default. To get this to work you must add a filter to set-screen-option. Here is an example of how to do that.

Your code does not works too. I got work solution, when I moved adding filter set-screen-option to "init" hook. It describes in first comment in documentation page https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/set-screen-option/

//$hidden   = array();
  $hidden  = get_hidden_columns( $this->screen );

This will help to implement the col show/hide feature in screen option properly

@manchumahara: I haven't looked at this piece of code for ages. Thanks for your comment. I'll gonna take a close at it next week.