I'm no longer in love with the various data-bound controls that shipped with "classic" ASP.NET, such as the DataGrid and Repeater.  Ultimately, the event-based data binding added way too much indirection and debugging headaches.  I find that I'm much happier with the simpler semantics adopted by the original Active Server Pages and recently popularized by ASP.NET MVC and Web Pages implementations.  To that end, I'm going to construct my HTML pretty much how I want it to look, and then use a simple foreach loop to populate the contents of the table.

For styling the table, I borrowed one of the nice templates from this Top 10 CSS Table Designs article, which has some nice options.  The end result is some very clean and readable code:

You can view the actual output here:

http://aspalliancefiles.s3.amazonaws.com/books.htm

It looks like this: