NEW YORK — It turns out at least one part of publishing has a diverse slate of authors: The books most likely to be pulled from school and library shelves.

The American Library Association on Monday released its annual list of the 10 books receiving the most complaints from parents, educators and others in the local community. Sherman Alexie’s prize-winning, autobiographical novel of high school life, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” ranked No. 1, followed by Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel “Persepolis” and the picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin, Peter Parnell’s and Justin Richardson’s “And Tango Makes Three.”

Others on the list include Toni Morrison’s debut novel, “The Bluest Eye”; Khaled Hosseini’s million-selling novel “The Kite Runner” and Jaycee Dugard’s best-selling memoir about her kidnapping, “A Stolen Life.”

The remaining books cited by the library association were Robie Harris’ “It’s Perfectly Normal”; “Saga,” by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples; Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”; and Raina Telgemeier’s “Drama.”

Several of the authors listed were either non-whites, even though just a small percentage of books released each year are by non-whites, or writers of books with gay, lesbian or transgender themes.

According to a study compiled last fall by the website Diversity in YA, which advocates diversity in young adult literature, around 20 percent of books that appeared on the library association’s challenged books list since 2000 have been by non-white authors. Over half of the books included content about non-whites, non-heterosexuals or disabled people.

“Diversity is slim throughout all genres of books and across all age groups — except when it comes to book challenges,” wrote the report’s author, Malinda Lo, herself a young adult novelist.

Reasons for books being challenged ranged from “cultural insensitivity” in Alexie’s novel, in which the author draws upon his experiences as an American Indian at a virtually all-white high school; to “promotes the homosexual agenda” in “And Tango Makes Three.” Common complaints include explicit sex, violence, references to drugs and alcohols and offensive language.