Simple array destructuring

booksByList.js

 const booksList = [
  '1',
  'The Stranger\nThe Outsider',
  'Albert Camus',
  '1942',
  'French',
  '2',
  'In Search of Lost Time\nRemembrance of Things Past',
  'Marcel Proust',
  '1913–27',
  'French',
  '3',
  'The adventures of Huckleberry Finn',
  'Mark Twain',
  '1885',
  'English'
];

function createBooksFromList(listOfBooks) {
    const [id, title, author, year, language, ...rest] = listOfBooks;
    const result = [];
    result.push({
        id,
        title,
        author,
        year,
        language
    });
    if (rest.length) {
        return result.concat(createBooksFromList(rest));
    }
    return result;       
}

console.log(createBooksFromList(booksList));